I was asked to see someone at home today who gave the report of being unable to PU (Pass Urine) for more than 12 hours. I found him in terrible pain with a bladder swollen right up to his umbilicus (normally, even a full bladder will not even rise out of the pelvis). I arranged for immediate admission, where he will be catheterised and experience a miraculous and almost instant relief of his pain.
Normally this condition is due to prostatic enlargement, and so in theory is something to which all men are potentially susceptible. Having seen the awful agonies experienced by the hapless men who have it, it is a condition I particularly dread. I think most of all I would fear being admitted to hospital, ageing, infirm and in extreme pain, but then the blessed process of catheterisation being delayed interminably by some sort of administrative difficulty. I'd love to tell you things like this are rare occurrences; however I have to tell you that they are not. I hope to God it doesn't happen to this bloke.
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