Tag: Homeostasis

In a quiet hospital room, a young girl sat by her father’s bedside, watching him shift uncomfortably, tethered to a catheter that had become both a necessity and a burden. Her father, once active and independent, had been struggling with spinal cord injury for years. The catheter, while helping him manage his bladder, came with its own set of complications. For people like her father, or those with neurogenic bladder disorder, intractable incontinence, or even bladder cancer, the loss of bladder function can feel like a never-ending cycle of discomfort and distress. Relying on catheters, while necessary, often leads to Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI), further worsening their condition and even accelerating disease progression.¹