What is a Foley catheter?

What is a Foley catheter?

John Bjarne Grover

It happens, probably mostly under conditions of threats that are diffuse or difficult to locate, that people cannot get the urine out of the bladder - it is simply locked. Then there is either the option of medication which opens it anyhow, but then it normally runs constantly and one has to use diapers, or a catheter can be used: A catheter is a rubber hose inserted in through the urine tract ('urethra') in to the bladder - and the urine runs constantly out through it. The rubber hose ends some centimetres outside the body - and a plastic bag with plastic hose can be attached to it as a hermetic container to keep the urine. This plastic bag is emptied now and then in the course of the day - at least once a day.

I got such a catheter installed because there was a rupture in the canal from the kidneys down into the bladder (urine was running out and into the hollow of the stomach - I dont know the reason why the condition had developed) and for this to be healed it needed to be left in peace - if the bladder went up and down when filled and emptied in the course of the day, it would not heal. The catheter was installed and it functioned well, and after a month it should (while still in hospital) be changed : They pulled it out with the greatest ease and put a new one in. I was later dismissed from the hospital and was instructed to change the catheter after a month, but it was not so easy to find an opportunity and I bought one from a seller of sanitarian things and planned to do it myself. It was called a 'balloon catheter' - but the instruction leaflet did not explain why. I naturally reasoned as follows: Why must it be replaced? In order to avoid infections, probably. But is that really true? Infection in the rubber hose? No, in the urethra of course. But then it does not help to change the rubber hose - rather that only adds an insecurity factor when new bacteria are inserted once a month? But then why should I have to change it? Ah, the 'balloon catheter' is a construction for expanding the diametre of the hose, I reasoned, it is the hose itself which has an inflatable area around - the rubber hose cannot be as wide as the urethra itself since then one cannot get it in - it has to be smaller for getting it easily in but then it also easily glides out again - therefore the balloon technology which expands the diametre of the hose to attach it well to the urethra wall. But if the rubber is too slippery it glides out anyhow, so one uses a rubber type which attaches slightly to the urethra wall - but then it must be changed once a month for preventing that it attaches too well. If one waits too long with changing it, one risks finding that it has grown into the tissue and wont get out. This explains why it must be changed with regular intervals, I reasoned.

It was after I had used it for two months that I started getting nervous about this but could not go to an italian doctor since my status was not sufficiently residential (said the law) and it was not emergency. But it should be easy to pull it out - such as I had seen them do it in the hospital - and put a new one in, I thought. So I started pulling for getting the catheter out and panicked slightly when I discovered that it had already attached to the inside. What do I do now, I thought. Well, it had to get out anyhow - it could not be left there - so I pulled it out with some force. Something went wrong in there - and then it was too late to turn and leave it there and I pulled the story it - it dropped out and turned out to be a plastic balloon the size of a bird's egg that came out through the urethra and some blood. That is when I finally understood what it was - the 'balloon' was not around the hose - it was an egg-sized inflatable structure that was in the other end of the rubber hose and was inflated when this had come inside the bladder, and it thereby prevented the hose from gliding out of the bladder simply because such a big inflated balloon do not glide out the urethra opening in the bladder. Ah, so smart.

This is a Foley catheter, invented by Frederic Foley in 1929. But I had not got any info about it and could not guess it before it came out. The egg-sized balloon is not visible before insertion and not after either and one cannot guess it if nobody has told it. Even the 'balloon catheter' which I had bought had an instruction leaflet but it was written in such a way that it was impossible to guess that the balloon was in the bladder . It was the first explanation which was sensible - that the 'balloon' was around the whole rubber hose and not only in the end .

The bleeding continued throughout the night and it was not possible to get a drop of urine out (in spite of swallowing four capsules of 'Urostemol' - a hungarian medication based on pumpkin seeds) - it was almost worse than before I was hospitalized in december - but now I did not know the reason - if the pullout had caused a lesion which was the reason. A fierce thunderstorm broke out (in the evening 25 march) when I realized that there was no other solution than to seek emergency help by a doctor - and early the next morning I went to the hospital and got wonderful help and was restored in the course of an hour.

The story with the unfortunate pullout was because I could not guess the principle with the balloon in the bladder and nobody had told me anything about the hidden mystery.

But, wait a little, if the inflation of the 'balloon' (one uses sterile water, not air) is not for expanding the whole hose to keep it well in place at the urethra wall, why do one need to change the catheter once a month? For preventing infections in the rubber? No, that cannot be the reason.

It is very possible that the answer is this: The plastic bag which is holding the urine must be emptied once a day, the plastic bag itself must be changed once a week, tells the instruction, and the catheter itself once a month. But these are just the temporal intervals of the marian apparitions of Medjugorje which started in 1981 (soon after the attempt on the pope on Fatima day) and are still going on. 'Med-ju-gor-je' = (norw.) 'with-you-go-je' = 'but you go with a J!' - which even could be taken to mean 'but you go with catheter!'

Does this mean that the Medjugorje apparitions are swindle? Probably not - rather the opposite - it is more likely that the interval of a month for replacement of the catheter is 'swindle'. It suggests that the reason why it must be changed once a month is found in a political wish to let the catheter follow the cycles of Madonna in Medjugorje. It is the celestial cycles or 'periods' that are imitated. (Donal Foley has criticized the Medjugorje apparitions).

'Med-ju-gor-je' can also mean 'but you do agree to it yourself!' ('du går jo med' på de[t] = 'du går jo med' POTte på hodet = 'but you have a potty on your head' - cp. people who were opened in the head soon after birth). It could mean that 'self-sacrifice' (to agree to it oneself) could be the reason for a sudden exit - invoked as possible explanation for the deaths of Lenin, the Gandhis and others. As if the catheter should mean that I agreed to an early opening of the head myself! Certainly I did not. Neither do I agree to let myself be sacrificed.

The reason for the story with the unfortunate pullout could therefore have been nazi propaganda in the idea that the catheter must be changed once a month.

It can be noticed that 'Belt and Road' in chinese 'dài lù' also can mean 'rubber hose [or car tyre] and way', such as 'catheter and urethra'. That is infrastructure. It is in german language that 'dài' can mean both 'Streifen' and 'Reifen' - or simply 'St.Reifen' - the 'holy rubber hose'.

German types are also a problem in some of my files since a few weeks or months - apparently the problem is somewhere on the net - the characters with TÖDLER such as this text on my page 'Halb offen stand die Tür'. The characters stored on my homepage file on the web are right but they come out wrong on the screen (at least the screens I have consulted). I contacted Yahoo about it but they could not solve the problem, at least not then. (In this file I mentioned Netanjahu but I dont think I have said anything wrong about him).

If the catheter is conceived as 'organized crime', it could be noticed that it is not I ('jewish genetics') who 'organize' the crime even if I use a catheter. It is in the same way of short circuitry thought that the Foley balloon could be conceived as a 'lapis philosophorum' (developed by a 'metaphysical contraction') - for the conclusion that 'lapis philosophorum' is a part of or the same as a 'pis-tool'. I think I read somewhere that a male ejaculation is released by a contraction of the whole body, not just the local region around the prostate - however, it is possible that this idea is the same as the idea of a 'metaphysical contraction' that consequently could resemble the formation of a 'lapis philosophorum' - cp. also the similarity with the outlines of Syria on the map. A pity indeed it is with such ideas at a time when the 'lapis philosophorum' seems to held secret - in particular if the people is invited to believe that it is the same as a 'pis-tool'.

I recall from probably the summer 1971 the pop top hit 'Oh mamy blue' by 'Middle of the Road'. The back side of the single was 'Soley Soley'. If 'Mamy Blue' had its pretext in the death of Sachs 1970, this 'Soley Soley' could have found its pretext in the death of Celan 1970.