101 Things To Do Before I Die
My Mother recently had an E.R. visit, she has yet another UTI. The Nurse Practitioner was asking her history and why she was seeing an urologist. " I have trouble catherizing myself", Mom said. " Do you have anyone to help?", the NP asked. This is when I wanted to lift my hand as if I was in school and say " ME! ME!" but I refrained from doing so. This is the 2nd health care professional Mom has had this same discussion with. See, she has RA so it's hard to catheterize herself but I have offered to help her numerous times. After a year, I think she may be wearing down. You see, I have jackass genes. I understand where she's coming from...who wants their child to help them with such an intimate thing? It's not like it's on my bucket list, either- 57. Catheterize Mom- Done! Woo Hoo! Now I can die happy. My grandmother needed help taking a bath and going to the bathroom and she hated being waited on. But she knew she couldn...