So one of the things that can happen after prostate cancer radiation treatment (and I note that I don’t think I’ve written a post about that — I suppose I was a bit distracted at the time) is that you can develop what’s called a stricture, ot narrowing, of the urethra from scar tissue forming.
This can cause you to not completely empty your bladder when urinating, and that can cause your kidneys to back up and get stressed.
You do not want to stress your kidneys.
My urologist tells me, “Okay, we need to make sure you’re getting your bladder emptied as much as possible. I want you to go pee every two hours, whether you feel like you need to or not.” Which doesn’t seem like such a big deal, except that I am, as I have noted, somewhat ADHD, and if hyperfocus kicks in, I am very likely to get caught up in something for hours at a time, only dimly realizing that I’m tired/hungry/thirsty/need to pee.
I could manually set myself alarms every two hours but that would be a pain to set up, and a pain to disable if I needed to. So I’m writing myself an app to do it.
It pings me every two hours to remind me it’s time to go; if I do so early, it resets the next interval to two hours from that point. If I don’t respond, it keeps bugging me until I do.
That’s the basic idea; I’m fairly sure I’ll want to add on to it (the process of writing this post reminds me that I really do want to be able to put it in vibrate-only mode when I’m, say, at a concert), but I’m going to get the basic version done and live with it for a while.
No idea if this is common experience, but if it is, I’ll definitely put it out on the App Store.
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