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(Jane was upset when I got to 330 this noon: Her catheter had been completely pulled out of her this morning after hydro, when Georgia and Steve had transferred her back into bed from the litter. Staff people had tried putting it back in, but couldn’t get it to drain. Before that it had worked well. “Your wife won’t be speaking to me anymore, after what I did to her this morning,” Georgia said to me as I walked down the hall to 330. A new catheter had been inserted, but that one wasn’t working when I got there.

There is nothing wrong with Ruburt’s bladder. He does not have an infection. The inconvenience and discomfort arising from the catheter’s use are the end results of those few lingering doubts and fears that Ruburt still has. They are projected outward onto the conditions surrounding the catheter’s use. And of course the unpleasantness that adds to his physical disomfort.

(4:15. Jane did a few cautious shoulder movements. “They still feel like satin,” she said, but she was careful not to move too much so as not to make the catheter leak more. “I’m tempted to tell you to move all you want to,” I said, “and forget the catheter.” I was reminded to tell her that in reviewing many of the personal sessions we’d had at the time Seth was also delivering Dreams, he’d stressed over and over again that each time her body had tried to heal itself, with sore muscles resulting, Jane had tightened herself back up. She had consistently misunderstood the messages her body was giving her. “If you’d paid attention to those messages, and gotten over that hump,” I said, “you might not be here now.”

(2:30. Two new gals—one a student, stopped in to see if they could get the catheter already in place working again. I worked on mail.

[...] She’s having spasms in her bladder from the catheter. [...]

[...] She had more bladder spasms, and was afraid she’d loosened the catheter with her motions, although I hadn’t thought they were that strong, except for the rapid head movements. [...]

(However, Jane was having pretty frequent bladder spasms as she ate dessert, and feared that tonight she might have to get a new catheter. [...]

[...] Jane remembered to tell me that last night two students had watched as an aide checked her catheter and Foley. This in turn reminded her that Jeff had also said this morning that maybe she had an infection from the catheter, “since people always do.” [...]

(Jane told me she’d had to have a new catheter inserted at 3:30 a.m. That part went okay, though she was quite uncomfortable by the time I got to 330 — generally uncomfortable, that is. [...]

[...] Judy emptied Jane’s Foley, or catheter bag, Dorothy took her blood pressure and pulse, and Carla her temperature — 98.2. I did some more mail until Jane said she was ready for a session. [...]

[...] Jane had to have her catheter changed three times while I was there yesterday. [...]

(The main thing I want to note is that after the catheter had been changed for the last time, Jane very nearly turned over on her left side by herself. [...]

(After lunch Jane told me that she’d had a new catheter inserted at about 3:30 this morning. [...]

(In 330, Jane told me that she’d had to have her catheter changed around 11:00 last night—they did it four times or so before they got it right, she said. [...]

[...] She’d pressed it once last night, she said, when she needed something done about the catheter. [...]

[...] It developed that she’d had to have a new catheter inserted at around 11:00 AM, and that she was worried about being transferred to another room if and when the administration shut down surgical 3, as they call it. [...]

[...] She’s been having a lot of spasms, and fears the catheter was loosened enough yesterday that she’ll have to have it changed tonight. [...]

[...] Jane ate well; her catheter is working well, and irrigating the way it’s supposed to. [...]

(Jane was doing well when I got to 330; her catheter is working okay. [...]

[...] Her catheter hasn’t been changed now for some time; she’s done well with it. [...]

(Jane had her catheter changed, though she was still getting spasms when I got there, and these continued throughout the afternoon. [...]

(On the negative side, staff still has trouble at times irrigating the catheter—but as soon as Jane starts drinking more, the urine clears up, and so do the muscle spasms. [...]

[...] She is starting to pick up a few spasms from the new catheter. [...]

(Jane was already on her back when I got to 330 this afternoon; Gail Greene had had to turn her in order to check the catheter, which at first had refused to irrigate. [...]

[...] Jane had her catheter changed this morning after hydro, following a big BM after midnight last night. [...]

[...] Jane had to have her catheter changed again, at about midnight, after attempts at irrigating it failed. [...]

[...] Dana came in to empty Jane’s catheter bag, or Foley, as everyone calls it. [...]

(Jane told me that she’d had her catheter changed at 11:30 this morning, and had just finished having her dressings done before I arrived. [...]