it took me over 8 months to get 98% dry.  i think it's great that
someone can be dry right away, but it wasn't meant to be with me.  i
still remember that day at the doctor's office when they pulled the
catheter and i stood there naked from the waist down and watched as i
drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip.  i couldn't stop not one
drop and i thought to myself, "is this what i have to look forward to
for the rest of my life?"  

and then the nurse tuned around on her little stool after making the
computer entries and said those words that really makes you feel even
lower.  

"you can put your depends on now."

i wiped out three pads that i was wearing as a backup inside the depends
in just the travel trip back to the house.  

i slowly dried up and as you said, it feels so good to stay dry.

~ curtis

knowledge is power - growing old is mandatory - growing wise is optional    
"Many more men die with prostate cancer than of it. Growing old is
invariably fatal. Prostate cancer is only sometimes so."

Like I told my wife, it gets a little depressing when you get dressed
in the morning and you have to put on your Kotex pad.
Also, there is not the glimmering sign of the soldier standing at
attention.

So, getting rid of the pads is a little uplifting to the spirit and
improvement to the state of mind.

But, I still feel like an "it" sometimes.  An alive "it", but an "it".

MrBill