Keyan is Cathing!

We had our appointment with Dr. Mitchell on Tuesday and was told that Keyan is healing beautifully. He removed the AVC drain which is the drain that came from his belly button. He now us using that channel to drain his urine. He takes a 16 inch, 10 french catheter and carefully guides it through the channel beginning at his belly button down into his bladder. Once the catheter reaches the bladder the urine drains out. Keyan is doing such a remarkable job at self catheterizing and we are so proud of him. Once we are all feeling confident with cathing, irrigating (flushing saline in and out of the bladder through the catheter to remove the mucus) and once the bladder stretches a bit more, the other drain will be removed. To stretch the bladder we will drain the bladder every 2 1/2 hours rather than the original 2 hours. Our goal is to be able to go 3-4 hours between draining the bladder.
One word of advice, pre-order all supplies, do not wait until you must begin cathing. We were given enough supplies to last us for a day and a prescription for additional supplies. Unfortunately it takes 5-7 days to recieve the order...........after hours of phone calls I was able to track down 31 catheters! Today I found some more that will last us until the shipment arrives. A lesson to be learned.