44. The Last Thing You Want to Happen
I had a patient with bilateral above-the-knee amputations. He was not fully conscious, and not really able to follow commands. His wife wouldn’t allow a Foley catheter (one that is inserted into the urethra), so he was using a sheath catheter. It’s exactly what it sounds like. So this guy, he was on the small side, and I’m not talking about his height.
His wife was tired of the sheath catheter slipping off, so she put rubber bands around his dangly bits to hold the catheter on. Well, sure as anything, they were too tight. The worst happened. His member became necrotic from lack of blood flow and the little thing fell off.