Day 9 recovery - pushing the envelope

Saturday today and I woke up just before 6am panicking that I was leaking. I wasn't but my bladder was nicely full and satisfying to empty - the volume being voided is definitely increasing over time. I went back to bed but couldn't really sleep and I wanted to let my wife sleep in (poor thing is exhausted from looking after me) so I got up and made coffee.

After catching up with the news I went for a short walk and extended it to around the block (around a km), which is my usual short morning meditative walk and something I had down as a stretch goal for next weekend. I was walking slowly and carefully and started to feel a bit woozy in the last few hundred metres but very happy with that. It was nice to have a lie down afterwards though. The coffee also triggered off some bowel movements that suggest I need to cut back on the stool softeners. In fact that was harder to manage than my bladder! 

By the time my wife got up I'd read the internet and was starting to feel a little bored. But I wasn't able to settle in to a book as she was up and pottering around me having breakfast. Not a criticism by any means but something to remember. 

Everything feels better today and I'm not dribbling much at all. Most of the time the urge to urinate is triggered by a change in position and I'm using the loo every 90-odd minutes, venting a reasonable amount of fluid and am controlling the flow fairly well. It is hard to clear the tubes after finishing, particularly when sitting down, as there seems to be endless dribbles afterwards. And when I feel the urge to go I need to act on it pretty quickly. 

Generally I'm very happy with how it's working & I'm still using the same 'penis pocket' that I had on overnight which suggests leakage is low . But I'm bored, really bored.   

   

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