The blue bag in front of my knee was tied to the treadmill and held my urine collection. When I first got home, my treadmill didn't go slow enough for me, so I just walked around the house until I felt like I could get .5 mph without falling. I use a Garmin 225 watch to track my workouts and races, and now it was counting steps for me. This was the 1st day on the treadmill, and I topped 1000 steps. The next day, it was 1700 steps. On the 3rd, I topped 2000 steps. The hard part was standing up straight. My abdomen was really tight. A week later, with the catheter out for a day, I topped 4000 steps. I was also upping the pace slowly. The downside to having the catheter out was peeing myself. The 1st week I did go through some extra diapers when walking. As time went on this slowly got better, relieving some of the frustration from the first couple of weeks. On January 24th, 4 weeks after surgery, I topped 10,000 steps and was down to 2 pads in a 24 hour period. I felt like there was light at the end of the tunnel. I still hadn't walked outside, or up and down hills. I was trying to wait for 6 weeks out from the date of the surgery to start running slowly. The time for that was getting closer. I was still peeing myself when I sneezed, stood up, put on shoes, etc, but walking, sitting, and sleeping was much better than before.
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