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Recurrent UTIs in catheter users are common, often expected, and frequently undertreated, not because the options don't exist, but because most people navigating this experience are never told about them. This episode covers the full landscape of catheter and UTI prevention with the kind of clarity that is still too rare in clinical settings. The Reality Nobody Promises Away Keira McGarrity spent the first six months of intermittent self-catheterisation dealing with constant

The gap between being shown how to perform intermittent self-catheterisation in a clinic room and being able to do it confidently in your own bathroom is larger than most people expect. For many catheter users, that gap is exactly where things fall apart. This episode names it directly and offers something more useful than technique tips. A Procedure Designed for the Wrong Environment Angie Rantell has been teaching intermittent self-catheterisation for nearly 20 years. The w

A negative test result, when you are still experiencing symptoms, is not a neutral event. For many people it is the moment that tips them from uncertain into invisible. Confirmed, it seems, is their own worst fear that nothing is actually wrong, that this is just them, that they are somehow imagining it. This episode does not rush past that experience. It sits in it and explains, clearly and with compassion, what is actually going on. The Moment That Confirms the Worst Keira

Most people with bladder symptoms don't seek help straight away. They adapt. They plan. They restrict. They quietly reorganise their lives around a problem they haven't yet named and often haven't yet recognised as a problem at all. This episode sits inside that experience with refreshing, yet unusual, honesty. A Normal That Was Never Normal Keira McGarrity had her first UTI at five years old. By the time she was a teenager, she was getting up eight to ten times a night and p