My husband had a big L of an incision, tubes and IVs everywhere, and the only thing he complained about was that catheter! In fact, the first time I was able to walk down to his room (after they had taken out my catheter) the catheter removal story was the first thing out of his mouth! He told anybody and everybody that would listen about that catheter! The nurses finally, jokingly, told him if he didn't shut up about the catheter they were going to put it in a shadowbox and send it home with him as a souvenir! But be glad - as the recepient, about 6 weeks later, my husband had to have the stent removed which made the catheter removal look like nothing.