My father has had three operations on his urethra at two different hospitals over the space of 2 years. Each time he is left with soaking wet dressings because he bypasses his catheter. No doctor or nurse has addressed the issue before they send him home. He also constantly feels like he needs a wee and they sont even give him anti spasmodics to help. On two occasions he has had to remove the catheter himself at home. The first time he had a skin graft on his penis which ofcourse failed due to being soaked in urine constantly. This time (2 days ago) he has removed it himself again and the nurse on the phone is treating him.like he is a difficult patient. The hospital is Southampton, he lives 2 hours away and he was expected to travel there with soaking wet leaking catheter just to have it removed 3 days after the op. The operation was UCL London and they discharged him to travel on public transport with it bypassing.
He needs further operations but has now decided he will never go back to any hospital because they will not listen to him.