Many patients including myself have been bamboozled by the new, 15-foot supply and drain lines on the newly provided “improved” Liberty Cycler cassettes. The purpose of this blog is to offer a few solutions from the simple to more technical to deal with the shorter line that connects to our catheter. I’ve previously discussed the availability of a supplemental line for the shorter drain..
- Most simple: Go old fashion and buy a bed pan. The are available on Amazon for as little as $10.00. See link here:
- Put Cycler on an extension cord long enough to move cart so can reach target. Suggest buying a 12 gauge cord. They are available on Amazon for less than $20.00. Using this method would require the presense of mind to move the cart without unplugging the cycler, and dealing with making up the cord upon return to its normal place.
- This is the one I have. Place your UPS (Unirruptable Power Supply) on the bottom shelf of the cycler cart. If you have to move the cart to reach the toilet, just unplug the UPS, roll the cart so you can reach the toilet, do your thing, roll the cart back where it normally is, and plug the UPS back in and it will pick up where it was without any interuption to cycler operation. If you are new to the UPS world, I suggest buying a UPS with at least a 200+Watt-hour rating which should run the cycler for a least an hour or more. Something like this from Amazon would do. See picture at lead.
- Last and NOT RECOMMENDED is to splice in enough plastic tubing to enable you to reach the toilet. If you could reach your toilet with the former 20 foot line, this jumper should be about five feet and whould require two male connectors of the right size for the tubing that are clinically and asceptically clean. I cut the drain extension off for about a five foot extension to reach our toilet for drain so have plenty of tubing left over, but not the tubing fittings. Amazon has a bunch but you would need to figure out the correct size and a way to keep everything Khoser-Clean.
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