it’s the weather.
typical manchester weather, rain, rain, rain - we’d better build an ark.
that constant drip, splash sound makes me want to go.
ah well better go and try.
carole x
And get your wee tested if it carries on Carole. I test my own and have for years. Then I don’t have to wait for the doctors surgery to decide if there’s a UTI.
But constant rain will do it too. I’d have thought you’d be used to it though. Doesn’t it always rain in Manchester?
Sue
yea it does always rain in manchester.
but this one has a different sound.
i always check the colour and if it’s cloudy or clear. (my pee not the rain)
i usually smell an infection.
my GP was amazed that i can do that.
Hi, sorry I guess I already know the answer to this, but have forgotten!
Are you in the spc gang Carole?
Is getting to the loo, mobility wise, a problem?
Still looking for that magical surgeon who can design a waste away wrist for us!
Got your name down for when it happens.
pollsx
According to Melanie Reid (who is tetraplegic and writes a weekly column for the Times on a Saturday which this week was all about her bladder, her SPC and UTIs), she can smell an E. coli infection, but not a pseudomonas. Interesting hmmm? My mother also says she can smell a UTI. She has a very delicate sense of smell.
I personally cannot smell a UTI, but I can smell a nice Chablis, or a decent Rioja.
I know which I’d rather smell.
Sue
My pee often smells so strong you`d think it has a uti, but doesnt.
That could be due to being concentrated and held in a bag for a time.
When I bypass on the loo, when going for a no 2, it doesnt smell bad then, so I reckon the storage is to blame.
pollsx
Hi Carole,
Do you think you could do mine? I’m passing by Tuesday so I’ll pop in and let you have you a sniff.
Al.
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Carole, I often have pee urges and sometimes a change of position may delay it.
I sort of know when I genuinely need one but there are times when I need one after the other. I can also sniff out any anomalies and always check the colour.
The whole thing makes every day a masterpiece of timing. It all sounds rather basic but we must take care of the basics. Where I live (on a big hill), we get a regularly consumed by cloud. It doesn’t seem to be raining but it still soaks you; a bit like the very fine northern rain. But I have seen fine weather in Manchester.
Now to sniff something alcoholic.
Best wishes, Steve
urgh!
i hadn’t realised how gross my post was, sorry good people.
albrecht durer - that was kinky of you!
steve snore - if i turn over in bed i need the loo a minute later.
makes it all more interesting?
while you’re up please pour me a rioja, merlot or malbec
pollx - not in spc land yet
sue - xxxx
cxxxx
Ha ha sorry this has cheered me up no end, well Carole, I pee like a rhino! Got used to it now, if I go anywhere or see my kids or friends (very rare), I tell them don’t plan a day or anything or even a meal without loos nearby and if I need to pee in a field I damn well will without even a glance back.
I even plan pee days i.e. tired, muscle ache, drink tea, stop in all day, pee, read, pee, watch tv, drink more tea, pee. It’s a bit like my sort of bank holidays without any motoroway driving, this Wednesday I will plan a pee day. If they phone up (very rare) to say oh come here I will even enlighten them with my thoughts and tell them that ‘no sorry, not coming anywhere, just peeing today’. Oh ok, they reply.
It is a beggar of a thing but I now have a bathroom without a dripping tap, a nice large vertical hot radiator, a tall loo, an easy push button, a book, one lasting resilient plant, lots of foot cream (sometimes I rub this into my tired little feet whilst doing the exercises that the peeing nurse advised such as gently bending whilst trying not to fall off the loo). Not an unpleasant experience, then I repeat the process probably 20 times during the day and who only knows how many at night.
They gave me a pee diary for three days to fill in when I went to the pee clinic, ha ha, I had to make my own as it didn’t have enough pages. She just looked at it and smiled. I said to her, it might be advisable for the powers that be to extend their little diary of peeing for people who do actually spend all their time peeing! I think the diary must have been devised in the 70s, it had that really old dark type script that you don’t see anymore. Anyway, I just like to think that we are very efficient. I did all the Victoria Principle downstairs exercises when she brought her book out 70s or 80s so if I hadn’t I probably wouldn’t still have some control now. Ta Victoria.
Oh and I rarely drink but strangely found that going to the pub at 12 noon and starting the day with a Cinzano Rosso is not good for the bladder!
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Well Hebe, your post has cheered me up. I love the idea of pee days. Scheduled in advance as is only right and proper.
And I suspect you may be right that Cinzano Rosso for breakfast is a bad idea. Even when breakfast is consumed at 12 o clock.
Sue
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Cinzano Rosso now there’s s drink I had forgotten all about. I used to drink beer but now only drink shorts if out. Normally a Gin and Tonic saves the trip to the loo. Mates thought once I was catheterised I would never have to go to the loo… if only! Maybe I should connect a night bag (one litre) next time they ask me out for a few pints.
My per stinks but the last few times it has been tested I have not had an infection. I don’t ask my GP anymore I just know it will come back clear. It’s not because I don’t drink enough, I give up I can’t work it out anymore
XXX Don
You are right Don, I remembered it from the 70s (when I still was not 18) and suddenly at a funeral not long ago, wanted a rosso with ice and other bits floating or whatever they throw in now. It was very nice, refreshing, made my cheeks a bit pink and since then I have one about once a month or even less, but that particular day, emergency measures were needed i.e. get thee to the pub. ‘Starter Madam’, ‘yes Cinzano please’. The day got better, I had woken up with the sad sniffles and I’m not putting up with that for long!
hebe
i remember those pee diaries!
and the little measuring jug too.
cinzano rosso may not be good for the bladder but is excellent for the soul.
carole x
XX no sad sniffles are to be avoided, I felt that way last week I said to Heather (my wife) I could just burst into tears so we had a good laugh and I had tears of laughter.
XX Don
Have you considered intermittent self cathiterisation. It’s not as bad as it sounds and at least you know your bladder is empty. It gives me about 4 hours when I am not bursting for the toilet.
Tony.
An alternative to Cinzano Rosso is of course Babysham. Can you still get it? Once the height of elegance. I wonder if Mr Sssue is planning a trip to the posh wine shop today? Maybe he could see if a mini bottle of Babysham is available? I don’t think he’d dare ask for it tho. Shame.
Sue
Always used to have a cherry on top if I remember. Never really liked that one, don’t forget advocat which seems to be having a come-back on the tele anyway, the German wines of the 70s cripes I’ve seen those back in the shops too and then there was our favourite, a 50p bottle of Bulmer’s cider that someone would get from the out-window of the pub and we would go and drink in the graveyard.
I had a day out yesterday. I planned carefully for ages and drove to Calver having to stop twice on the way. One at the Manifold visitors centre, then at a garden centre which advertised coffee shop and loos on the website. Stopped again at a car park where there were free loos, went for a stroll, went to the loo three times, drove back home. Phew, very pleased, nearly had to stop in a field. Had to plan all of my food and drinks carefully for a few days and nights before setting off. Had emergency measures in the car, tissue in bag, large coat incase I needed to hide myself in a field. The alpine centre I wanted to see had no loos and was on a slope so that was awful, clattering two sticks, balancing, choosing a plant, then getting the heck out of there to the garden centre across the road. Need a big rest now for a few days.
Relaxed today, been somewhere and done something. No emergency cinzano needed today!
Not so long ago I knew the location of every public toilet in town.
Tip of the Day: Don’t wear light coloured trousers.
I can’t imagine drinking and enjoying a snowball (advocaat and lemonade with the obligatory cherry) nowadays, but as a teenager I loved the stuff. And would you believe it, Mateous Rosé is making a comeback!! Apparently the city types are all glugging it like it’s 1985. (I was told by a banker I know, I hesitate to say ‘friend’ as who wants friends who’s job title is usually spelt with a w!)
And I do know the availability of all the disabled loos in Worthing. Including the one at the end of the pier that the council shut down to my horror, until I discovered a brand new Changing Places loo just along the prom.
Sue
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