Mart totally off topic but I’ve only just realised that your avatar is the zodiac symbol for scorpio. I mention this because I saw the sign on someone’s neck tattoo the other day and I thought it looked familiar!
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Yes that’s M for Martin and I am a Scorpio. The name and the symbol just happened to coincide. 
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I’m Cancer and I’ve got crabs… 
Perhaps I should rephrase that…
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A crab by zodiac sign but I know you’re not a shellfish kind of person
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Just hanging around without the Nephrostomy dressing on but with just a bit of lint over the hole/tube. The trouble is that the skin gets mighty sore and itchy with having a plaster dressing on it month after month. There is a barrier applied to help with this but it still gets troublesome. I hope that leaving the dressing off for a few hours will help. Got to be careful not to pull on the tube though.
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Tut! 
- Hospital tomorrow. Blood test and a visit to a department where they can take a look at the Nephrostomy tube. There is what looks like ordinary plaster wrapped around the tube where it goes through the skin. This is so a stitch can go through it and into the skin to stop the tube coming out.
We think it’s too close to the skin because the plaster itself is trying to pull into the hole. It can be quite painful at times and it hampers movement. On the last tube (changed every 2-3 months) the stitch broke away. It was a lot more comfortable when that happened. It allowed a bit of movement but the tube still held in place by the dressing. We’ll see what they say tomorrow.
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That stitch must be very painful Mart, see if there is another way to anchor the tube.
Good luck…
Back from the hospital trip. Very good of the Urology staff to see me without an appointment. Only had to wait around half an hour before I was seen. The doctor was reluctant to remove the stitch, possibly because it would be a bit like another doctor’s work? He said it might be a bit risky having the securing stitch snipped. Anyway, he cleaned and redressed the hole with a temporary dressing.
The skin around the hole that had become inflamed and itchy because of having plaster stuck to it month after month is looking better for leaving the Skater ™ dressing off for a few days. The hole will probably feel better when the proper dressing is stopping the tube from moving around. That will be done tomorrow by Mrs mart.
A UTI is also suspected. I won’t go into why this is reckoned to be so but I’ve come away with some antibiotics. I have to be careful because the last infection had ‘sepsis’ in the wording of it. That’s one trouble with all this external plumbing stuff. It can be a source of infection.
Edit: Something from this morning. I went for a blood test prior to the above. My turn came up and I went into the room and sat down. As the phlebotomist was taking blood she said, “Ah the Sun is out at last”. I looked around the room that had lots of electric lights only as far as I knew. '“How do you know”? I asked. She looked over my shoulder and nodded upwards. “I looked out of the window” she said. Low and behold, there was one behind me. I said that I thought she knew because she had some sort of psychic powers. “No just the Window” she said. All those within earshot had a good laugh. I guess you had to be there but I’ve been giggling about it ever since.
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Glad it went well Mart…Antibiotics will sort you out before it gets too serious, Sepsis is something to be avoided…
Watch out for those windows…
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