Originally Posted by MelodyL

Hi. just wanted to update you all on where Alan is right now. He is in a short term rehab facility at Lutheran. He started physical therapy and O/T today. They immediately realized he doesn't need O/T and are concentrating on the physical therapy. He still has a foley. He has not been seen by a urologist as of yet. He has a consult coming up. Because he is in a nursing home, it's not like a hospital. The urologist makes his appearance when he makes his appearance. Today for the first time, (and he was not supposed to do this but he did it anyway), he got into his wheelchair, I wheeled him up to the bathroom, he stood up, went into the bathroom and did his thing. He is quite regular in his bowel habits. Thank goodness for that. I told the nurse and she said "OMG, please don't do that, call an aide and she will wheel him". Alan said okay. But the thing that matters is that he GOT UP and went by himself. Hasn't done that in quite a while because he is embarassed to be seen with a foley. We don't know what's going to happen when the urologist comes and sees him. The neurologist told us (back at the hospital) that his prostate is not that enlarged and that Alan might have a neurogenic bladder. Makes sense because he has had neuropathy for 23 years (Idiopathic). I'm just hoping this is not the case.

Oh, when he was doing physical therapy he told me they were following him around taking his blood pressure. He hasn't collapsed in quite a while since the last time (they attribute this to his prostate meds). He only takes proscar now. But he's peeing into a foley so what does this mean?

I'm just curious. When they ultimately take out the foley, how do they know if he has a neurogenic bladder or not?

I wonder how long this short term rehab will take? Perhaps two to three weeks? It's anyone's guess. I've been going back and forth every day but at $22.00 a day for cabs, this is not good. I'm not going tomorrow because he said he will have 4 hours of rehab. In my reading up on neurogenic bladders I read about all the treatments and oddly one of them is B-12. How interesting.

So I'm trying to hold up my end here.

Any input is welcome.

Thanks much

Melody