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Bladder…Annoyed

8/4/2014

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Cancer sucks…don't get cancer.  Really!  You know I'm upbeat about all this, but today is the first day that I really am feeling like the mindset "cancer sucks". I went and had my foley removed and was suppose to be trained on how to self catheter myself. Apparently the long term solution to my retention is for me to self catheter 4x per day. The training was a joke and they didn't even give me enough catheters to last a week. They literally gave me 8, are you freaking kidding me?  That is two days worth, not even enough time to get any ordered.  

This can't be a long term solution.  Let's do the math, 4x daily, I am 29 years old, the average U.S. female life expectancy is 82 that is 53 years of catheterizing myself daily 4x per day 365 days per year.  So… 53 x 4 x 365 = 77,380 times that I will have to self catheter.  That is ridiculous. There has to be another solution!

I'm irritated…then I fell down 3 steps on my way out.


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    Erica is a 32 year old cervical cancer advocate who is out living cancer for the third time. When she isn’t advocating for cervical cancer and HPV awareness as a Cervivor Ambassador, she previously oversaw the STEM program at the school where she was an educator; she now helps coordinate the robotics program. Erica enjoys spending time with her husband and son in their Indianapolis neighborhood, as well as pursuing new and adventurous hobbies. She can most recently be found fawning over kayaks and daydreaming of returning to whitewater kayaking with First Descents, an organization for young adults impacted by cancer. 

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