Many people have catheters, and indeed I have had a supra pubic one for 17 years and know how useful they can be. I tend to wear jeans but sometimes I choose to wear a skirt, or 'cut-offs'.
When I wear ordinary trousers and need a wee, I have to get my carer to help me because I'm paraplegic. This is something that could be both uncomfortable and embarassing if I did not have a catheter extension. My carers all say they have never seen anything like it, and groping up someone's trouser leg is horrible.
This is something that my husband has made using a piece of tubing from my nightbag - see below. He cuts two pieces of tubing off, one from the top and one from the bottom.These are then stuck together using the piece of plastic tubing designed to join the nightbag to the catheter bag. The join is covered with emergency tape. It has an on/off switch as does my catheter bag, so I know having two switches, one on the catheter and one on the extension, I will not get a wet leg or wet trousers.
When I need my bag emptying this can be done discretely, by using the on/off switches and not having to raise my trouser leg or grope up my leg for the catheter bag.
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| 1. Take a night bag |
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| 2. Gently tear out the tap |
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| 3. Cut c. 5cm from the top pipe |
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| 4. Moisten pipe A and insert into all the way into B |
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5. Snug fit will hold but can be covered
with tape for added security. |
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