Living With an External Catheter or "I Want One of Those!"

By Sam Turner

Sam Turner is a writer of journals and memoirs.  He has published This Might Help, Volumes One and Two, offering guidance, comfort, and hope for parents who have suffered the death of a child. 

In 2012, he published Living with the Semi-Rigid Penile Prosthesis. 

Continuing in this vein, he offers  Living with an External Catheter or "I Want One of Those" as his most recent journal. He describes the challenges and eventual success in mastering the learning curve for this daily procedure. He wishes you success in your own journey.

• Language: English
• Publisher: A Turning Point Publication
• Release date: Mar 1, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386093237

Sam Turner

Sam Turner, a retired art and writing teacher who served with the Arizona Education Association Innovative Teaching Techniques Cadre as a Trainer of Trainers in Facilitating, is a freelance writer. He's contributed to Arizona Highways and The Aviation and Business Journal. He teaches memoir writing, and he and his wife Phyllis have published This Might Help: A Three-Year Walk Through the Valley with the Compassionate Friends, a compilation of monthly columns published in the Tucson Chapter newsletter, Walking This Valley. Compassionate Friends offer guidance, comfort and hope for parents who have suffered the death of a child. Sam has been journaling for forty years and offers his most recent work, Living with the Semi-Rigid Penile Prosthesis, in hopes that, for those considering a procedure, this record might put them at ease.

Book preview

LIVING WITH

AN EXTERNAL CATHETER

OR

I WANT ONE OF THOSE!

––––––––

Sam Turner

The Turning Point publication of

Living With an External Catheter

OR

I WANT ONE OF THOSE

Copyright © 2018 Sam Turner

All rights reserved.

Disclaimer: This is a work of opinion, a reflection on the author’s experience. It is in no way intended to replace valid medical advice or the advice of medical professionals.

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Cover Art by Sara Therese Moore

Interior and Cover by Debora Lewis arenapublishing.org

To those who are living a new kind of normal that they may continue to enrich their lives and the lives of others who meet them.

Acknowledgements:

Sarah Woodward – who suggested I write about my experiences

Wendy Latorre – Helping me conquer the Learning Curve to a new normal

Tony Wilkey – Dependable Customer Care Representative

Joe Carrens – VP Quality/Regulatory encouraged me to keep writing

Rachel Scharfman – VP Marketing

Phyllis Turner – (She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed)

Table of Contents

Before

Nervous

Hearing Aids and Catheters

On Compassion and Being Helpful

Victory Gardens, Gas Rationing, and Men’s Liberty

Adjusting to a New Normal

Take a Walk Without Worry!

From Scotch to Craft Beer and Incontinence

Men’s Liberty: A Gift Of Confidence

Celebrating Independence

Coming out of the (Catheter) Closet

To Leak or Not To Leak –

For Men Who Are Sixty and Over

Anxiety

A Doctor’s Appointment

December Marks

Happy Thanksgiving!

Self-Isolation or How To Avoid Meetings

The Present

About the Author

Before

Is this a full-service bank?

Yes, answered the teller.

Good. Where is your restroom?

I’m sorry, Sir. We don’t provide that facility.

Then you aren’t a full-service bank.

Dripping my way out the door, I stood by my car and changed my diaper!

Moving into my eighth decade, I find change is constant. My most recent change has been away from diaper use. After my prostatectomy, the surgeon suggested that I would probably need diapers. (I had not yet learned to call them absorbents.) No