Urine -R- Us

Tom here:

At the heart of the last month has been urine, its plumbing, and its amount. During the renal failure face I was creating less than 500 CC for an entire day, during the last week as we tried to get the leak to close the ratio between the catheter and the stomach has been roughly 50-50. Here are the results since I have been home, they paint an interesting picture:


Date Time Foley(catheter) Pelvic Drain
1/5 7:20 pm 225 cc 320 cc
1/6 2:20 am 600 cc 370 cc
" 5:10 am 550 cc 100 cc
" 9:26 am 300 cc 50 cc
" 1:11 pm 300 cc 10 cc
" 2:50 pm 300 cc 5 cc
" 6:38 pm 180 cc 3 cc (Note: I spent 45 minutes walking)
" 8:55 pm 550 cc 0 cc (sleeping)
1/7 12:36 am 600 cc 0 cc (sleeping)
" 4:08 am 700 cc 0 cc ( sleeping)

As you can see the pelvic drain has stopped flowing completely. I feel great. My fingers are crossed that the leak has finally healed.

Tom