
Alexandra Sinclair
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I won’t be on @absoluteradio for a few weeks as I’m having an operation on Thursday that will blow your mind. As a result of the life-saving spinal surgery I had two years ago, the nerves to my bladder and bowel were cut. This has left me with a stoma for solids and the need to self catheterise to pee. It also left me with something called stress incontinence. Lots of women experience it after childbirth. Whenever I laugh, cough or sneeze, piss comes out. And I’m a ticklish asthmatic with hay fever. I’m sodden. It’s costing me a fortune in Tena pants. So I’m having an artificial urinary sphincter implanted. This thing is GENIUS. It’s like a lassoo, which will wrap around my pee pipe and tighten it so that I don’t leak anymore. However, I’ll still need to catheterise in order to empty my bladder. So in order to loosen the lassoo, I press a button which deflates it and allows me to get a catheter down there. But where is this button going to go? In between my balls. Here are some pictures of it. On the left is the entire device. The middle photo shows the reservoir on the left. That will sit behind my abdominal wall. On the right is the lassoo (known as the cuff). That will wrap around the pipe and inflate with fluid to tighten it. The final photo shows the button. That will sit in between my balls. Inside the bag. When it’s time to pee, I press that. (Once I can pin it down. It’s going to be like finding a penny in a bag of mozzarella). The button then deflates the cuffs by moving the liquid to the reservoir. Afterwards, the cuff will reinflate with water and tighten up again. So I’ll be off for a bit while I heal. The nurse told me ‘for 8 weeks it’ll feel like someone has smashed you in the balls with a hammer’. And she hadn’t seen Forest this season.






*Wednesday September 3rd 05:05 ⛈️⛈️⛈️RAIN CHECK⛈️⛈️⛈️ Windy says this is a free for all but if yer in the SOUTH WEST of Scotland please update me It’s not far away and by 8-9am ish give or take, much of southern and parts of central Scotland will be wet, with the Lothians, Tayside, Angus & Fife seeing the worst of it this morning I’m actually surprised the Met Office haven’t issued a YELLOW for us, but hey ho. I don’t make the rules Anyway. RAIN CHECK . . . WHERE are you (especially the SW), and is the RAIN in yet Mon then. Get involved #windywilson #raincheck #scotland












