@vernscw Thanks... Last week I asked my great primary care physician if she could approve me for self-catheterization lessons and she said yes, so hopefully that will happen.
It will serve possibly two purposes... Tell me whether or not I'm one of those people who finds it excruciating, and if it is tolerable it will then allow me to keep a self-catheterization emergency kit here at home so that if I experience sudden acute urinary retention I can possibly avoid an emergency-basis catheterization in the emergency room or by a paramedic... I would like my first time to be more like gentle sex than rape, if possible. 🙂