@fritzo - my catheter remove was nothing at all, no real sensation one way or another. I didn’t feel a thing. If I’d had my eyes closed, I wouldn’t even had known anything was happening, it was that simple and that quick.

First, the nurse used a little syringe thingy to extract some sort of balloon that was in there. Pardon me for not getting more technical than that, but I don’t know how a Foley catheter works and I don’t need to know. All I do know is, she said, “I’m gonna get that balloon out of you now,” and before I could even look down, it was out.

Then she clamped the tube off a few inches past the end of my penis and snipped the tube just past that to disconnect me from the bag. After that, she used a large syringe to load my bladder with water.

She explained that she was going to then extract the bit of tubing still inside me by simply pulling it out, while I stood by with a little handheld urinal to catch the water-urine mixture that would rush out… “1…2…3…”, and the tubing slipped out in less than a second, no pain, no tickling, no anything, and then the fluid came pouring out.

She looked at the urinal, confirmed that more came out than she put in and pronounced me good to go, so to speak.

That was it for the catheter. I was expecting much worse.

I’ll post about briefs and guards and wipes and all that in a separate post.