I am now 67 years old and have been suffering from Nocturnal Enuresis since birth, I have always accepted that, I have to wear a thick nappy pad at night, I also wear a pair of high sided pvc pants with welded leg and waist bands. Last Year after under going a major heart operation, a triple bypass operation, they fitted me with a catheter for the op, and five days after I had been admitted onto the general ward from the ICU, a young nurse came to take out my catheter, she said it wouldnt hurt me, she took the bag off the tube and started to pull on the long red tube, the pain made me yell out in pain, a senior nurse raced in, and said to the nurse have you let the balloon in the tube go down, she said no I didnt, he got a special needle pack and let the balloon down then he pulled the tube out slowly, but the pain was out of this world, a surgeon came over and said, give him something for the pain, and then we all saw the blood on the bed, and then I felt a warm liquid around my groin area, it was urine leaking out, the surgeon gave me a injection, which put me out, I came round back in the ICU, with a gigantic nappy pad wrapped around me, I was visited by a urologist and the continence nurse, they told me that, they had carried out an mini operation, but they cant do anything to stop the trickle of urine from the bladder, they wanted to take the bladder away, but I said no, I dont want to be confined to my home, until I die with no control, over what I do, she said at the moment they have stitched up the neck of the bladder, to stop the leak, and with luck the trickle will stop, so two months later, in a side ward, the trickle did stop, but I got some control over the flow, but it is limited, if I hold for to long it just flows until its empty, they cant fit a catheter because of the stitching, and they cant fit a rubber devise to my penis, as it wont hold properly. So they now supply me with Euron pull up pants for daytime wear and Euron Form Large super nappy pads for night time wear, I still wear a pair of plastic pants over them just in case. At first I thought I was the most unlucky person alive, being double incontinent was the last straw, I felt it was better, if I had chosen to say no to the heart operation, my good wife as been marvelous she as always washed my pants and generally fussed over me since we were married 47 years ago. I got compensation for my injuries and the social services moved us into a specially adapted bungalow.and we get attendance allowance to help my wife look after me, I am not a invalid I go out for walks with my dog, and my wife, but I have to make sure I dont go to far, we always take a spare pair of pull ups with us, to change into, we know where all the special adapted toilets are and have a special key to use them, so I can wash and clean up before I leave the toilet. A friend of mine is also incontinent during the day, and he as discovered terry pull up pants which come with a internal soaker pad if needed, also they do them in double thickness, do you think they would be better to use than, the euron pull up pads and the euron form nappy pads, he also wears a pair of plastic pants over them. I would like your advise on this subject, or perhaps you could suggest a better pad to use or pants to use with them.
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