
On May 20th my father took me to the hospital to undergo a procedure where the doctor took cartilage from my knee and put it in my ankle. I cannot put any weight on it for months and at that time I will be able to stand. Not walk, stand. Now for some reason life comes easy to me. I don't sweat the petty things but of course I pet the sweaty things (drum roll please!).
Surgery began at 10:30 AM and I was awake by 12:30 PM. Due to the medication and pain the doctor told me he would prefer me to stay in the hospital overnight to get the drugs flowing through my body and due to my weakness. Later in the day the nurse came in and asked me to urinate. However, her request I could not fulfill. Later in the evening around 7 she asked me to try again, but no matter how hard I pushed I once again could not achieve this simple objective. The nurse recommended that she use a bladder scanner. It seemed simple enough, so I agreed. It is really an ultrasound of your bladder to see how full you are. After applying the jelly to my stomach and rubbing some machine on me the nurse discovered I had about 200 cc's (cc's the unit of measure for urine). I asked if this was a concern and she said it was rather normal and most people can hold 500-600 cc's before they absolutely NEED to go to the bathroom and about the max a bladder can hold.
Again at 9, nothing. My parents left the hospital, I seemed stable and everything seemed fine.
Around 10 the midnighters arrived (the late night doctor and nurses) to take care of me and they asked me to urinate. I did not have to, but they wanted me to keep trying because I had been drinking fluids and had the IV in all day. I pushed and pushed and still no results.
PLEASE STOP READING IF YOU HAVE A WEAK STOMACH!
Around 12 I finally told the nurse I wanted to try again. Now the night crew is not the B squad. They go straight to the C- or possibly even failing. It is a wonder to me they are even allowed in a hospital or America for that matter because with their broken English we were not communicating well.
By 12:30 AM I was in such excruciating pain I said to the nurse I needed a catheter. Now to all of you wondering what this is or why I would ask there is a simple explanation. I had reached a point where my bladder was in so much pain that I needed to go. It is as if you spend an entire night drinking and drinking and then get home and then go to sleep and then wake up and never take a leak. However, you want to but when you push NOTHING happens. I know this is confusing to most of you, but I absolutely could not go, no matter how hard I pushed and it has now been 17 hours of desperately trying and failing.
The nurse said we should probably do another bladder scan, but I said why does it matter if I know I have to go and want to. I said just stick the catheter in my dick and make me pee. For those of you who still don't know, a catheter is a tube stuck in the man's penis hole and pushes against the bladder to make him urinate everything that is in him. It is NOT in his control once it is in and it automatically drains him giving him a euphoric feeling of automatic relief.
She said no, and she was getting the bladder scanner. Well the bladder scanner came out and what do you know but it said 200 cc's. I said Ma'am this is absolutely impossible to be drinking all day, have an IV in me and have the same bladder level I had hours ago. I said get another bladder scanner. She agreed, while claiming it wouldn't do anything and what do you know but my level was 950 cc's! Or if it helps about a full pitcher of beer! I was way above the limit a persons bladder can hold and risked rupturing and damaging my bladder.
Now I knew the cath was coming so right before it I pushed as hard as I could. I didn't care if i went all over myself, I just needed to pee. I tried to shit the bed hoping if I could do that then maybe some urine would come out. No success!
The nurse finally went and got the catheter, lubed it up and shoved that fucker right into my dick hole. Now I promise you all, you do NOT ask for a catheter unless you are in excruciating pain! Because you know when your dick hurts and your stomach hurts that much that you don't care about getting a tube shoved in your cock, that you have to take the mother of all leaks.
Well she shoved it in there and played. Pulling it in and out as I clenched my teeth and nothing came out. So what did nurse #1 do, she called non-English speaking nurse #2 who came in, lubed up a different catheter and shoved it right into my dick again. Of course before shoving a tube in my dick nurse #2 wanted to tell me it wouldn't hurt too much and its not a big deal. Yeah well easy for you to say, you don't have a dick and you don't need to take the worst leak of your life! She is a liar and a dirty pirate hooker! It hurts every bit as much as you can imagine.
Well as you might imagine nurse #2 was unsuccessful as well, so what did the two brilliant nurses do, they got nurse #3 to which I said no! I said it hasn't worked yet, its not going to work, I want a doctor. Nurse #3 came in and said she spoke to the doctor and he said to try a different type of catheter. A bigger one of course, not because my penis is large (by any means it is not) but because maybe it wasn't reaching my bladder properly. Well she shoved this in and played in there and i squirmed and made faces and squeezed my hospital bed railing and once again NO RESULT! I said enough, call the doctor now or I will!
Well, I called my father at 1 am after having 3 tubes shoved in my cock hole and a dangerously high cc level. My dad and brother rushed over and once they arrived my Dad said get a doctor up here or I will get my own. The nurse came in and said the Doctor was in the emergency room performing surgery and that he asked her to try it one more time. I said what the fuck makes you think after 3 tries that all of a sudden my penis wants to cooperate for you. Then nurse #1 came in and said, "Ben how are you feeling?"
"Well," my brother was standing in the room when I replied, "how the fuck do you think I am feeling? You shoved 3 tubes in my dick and I need to take a leak that could refill the ocean if it ever went dry! Do your job and either operate on me or get me a fucking doctor!"
Well nurse #3 came back and said the doctor wants us to try a different catheter. Well fine already, I guess, shove another tube in my dick if it makes you happy, but its not going to work! My dick hole is getting about as wide as the worlds biggest whores vagina. Might as well throw a goddamn hot dog down my hole because you can definitely fit 3 pencils and it definitely hurts just as much each time! And guess what catheter number 4 no success.
Welll still no doctor after 2 hours now and finally he shows up. He shoves another catheter in me and I am praying its going to work, but I know if it hasn't worked yet, its not going to work this time and he shoves #5 in my bleeding dick hole. Oh yes its bleeding and STILL NOTHING! "Please operate!" I am begging. Just knock me out on drugs and operate! I am screaming if the nurse used a correct bladder scanner hours ago we wouldn't be having this problem and we could have had the correct doctor in here to fix my dick already!
Well thank god for our family friend and urologist Dr. Andy (real name omitted). My Dad called him at 2 and by 2:15 AM he was at my bedside. The nurses brought out a goddamn toolkit of things to use on my pecker. I mean seriously, I'm at the point I fear he is going to shove his fist down my cock-hole because I don't know whats left to do. However, he runs right up to my brother and he squeezes his belly and said, well it doesn't feel like you are bloated at all. I don't know why they called me in here at this hour. This would have been a hilarious joke at any other time of my life, but not tonight! Get this urine out of me!
Well with one more cath, lucky number 6 and it works. He said within 2 seconds I should feel relief. Well it turns out I had so much urine in me that it wasn't 2 seconds but almost 2 minutes. 1250 cc's poured out of me or if it helps you visualize, a full 2 liter bottle of soda and then some. Within 2 hours of the draining another 1000 cc's came from somewhere else. Must have been hiding from the nurses!
Dr. Andy said I set a hospital record. Crying out of relief I only had one question for Dr. Andy. It wasn't why did this happen, which I later found out was because of the morphine and pain killers caused a temporary blockage on my bladder, but my question was:
"did the 5 other catheters not work because my penis is too small?"
To which Dr. Andy said, your penis is a very normal size, but your bladder was so full no one else was able to get the catheter to hit the part of your bladder it needed to reach to relieve you. Finding out the size of my penis is normal was also pleasant news.
I wore the cath for 36 hours and had a bag attached to my leg that held my urine. I thank my father for emptying the bag for me so I could refill it again. Then the next day when I saw Dr. Andy I thanked him when he took it out. I promise to those who wonder, it does not feel ANYTHING like it does going in and is way less painful coming out. I told Dr. Andy I would rather have his autograph than Michael Jordan's and thanked him for having the hands of an angel. He is the only man I grant permission to touch my precious penis whenever he would like!
Now for those wondering the effects since then. Yes I have never felt a worse burning in my life when I urinate. It lasted a full week and definitely made me dread every time I needed to urinate. I did bleed when I urinated, but there is no pain worse than not being able to pee. Anyone can give you stitches, but not anyone can make urine come out of you.
Moral of the story: Never hold it in, because you never know when one day it will decide it doesn't want to come out.
The entire day I had to wear the cath my brother thought was wonderful. I had a kit that allowed me to go whenever I wanted and wherever I had to. Friday night when my mom called the family in for dinner, my brother said he would eat dinner in the den, but my mother said come eat in the kitchen, to which my brother replied:
"If Ben can piss in the den, then I can certainly eat there!"