# Catheter help **URL:** \ **Category:** All about caring\ **Created:** [30 September 2021 10:29 UTC](https://carersukstaging.discourse.group/t/catheter-help/69090 "2021-09-30T10:29:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Karen\_21021](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@Karen\_21021](https://carersukstaging.discourse.group/u/Karen_21021)\ **Post date:** [30 September 2021 10:29 UTC](https://carersukstaging.discourse.group/t/catheter-help/69090/1 "2021-09-30T10:29:54Z")
I feel like I’m being selfish, I care for my mam who i live with, she has been learning to walk after covid she caught in December, she has been home since March. I’ve had a weekend, one night away booked for over a year, I’m desperately in need of a break, I haven’t had time away from home in 2 years my mam has a foley catheter and wears a night bag to bed which is upstairs. She’s fine going up with me holding her nightbag but worried she might fall if she tries to carry it herself. I feel awful leaving her, but want to get away for my sanity. Does anyone have any advice for carrying a long tube nightbag upstairs please? I’m considering not going away which will cause problems for others. It’s just a short distance from where I live. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Ayjay](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/carersukstaging.discourse.group/ayjay/32/190_2.png) [@Ayjay](https://carersukstaging.discourse.group/u/Ayjay)\ **Post date:** [30 September 2021 11:45 UTC](https://carersukstaging.discourse.group/t/catheter-help/69090/2 "2021-09-30T11:45:39Z")
Does she use a leg bag during the day, or just a flip/flow valve? If she uses a leg bag, leave it attached and then let her attach the night bag directly to the leg bag once she’s upstairs. This is better that substituting the night bag for a leg bag anway as there is less risk of introducing infection, every time a bag is detached from the catheter it’s a risk. Alternatively, if you get elastic straps with the bags, use a long one to strap the night bag around her waist whilst she goes up the stairs. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_21021](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@Karen\_21021](https://carersukstaging.discourse.group/u/Karen_21021)\ **Post date:** [30 September 2021 13:38 UTC](https://carersukstaging.discourse.group/t/catheter-help/69090/3 "2021-09-30T13:38:23Z")
Thanks Ajay unfortunately she can’t put the nightbag on herself, either myself or the carers have to do it. Strapping it up may be a possibility ---
**Author:** ![bowlingbun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@bowlingbun](https://carersukstaging.discourse.group/u/bowlingbun)\ **Post date:** [30 September 2021 17:42 UTC](https://carersukstaging.discourse.group/t/catheter-help/69090/4 "2021-09-30T17:42:47Z")
The carers need to be timed to coincide with going upstairs. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_21021](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@Karen\_21021](https://carersukstaging.discourse.group/u/Karen_21021)\ **Post date:** [8 October 2021 00:38 UTC](https://carersukstaging.discourse.group/t/catheter-help/69090/5 "2021-10-08T00:38:12Z")
> [@](#): > > The carers need to be timed to coincide with going upstairs. Unfortunately the carers finish around 8, she refuses to go to bed before 11.00 as she doesn’t well