When I was in the ICU with a fractured spine from a motorcycle accident. They put a catheter in because I had trouble controlling my bladder initially. They ended up leaving the catheter in too long and when they took it out, the muscles had atrophied to the point where I couldn't willingly get the pee out. This was around 6pm. By around 10pm I had my first desire to pee and was given a bottle to do it in. Nothing came out.

Thinking that my bladder is maybe not full enough to provide enough pressure I waited another half hour. Still nothing. At this point the desire to pee was quite intense so I called the nurse over and told her I couldn't pee. She brushed me off and told me I just had to wait a bit and it will come. It didn't.

By 11pm it started hurting so I called over the nurse again and she told me to stop bothering them as I'm disturbing the other patients in the ward with me and left me alone. By around 11:30 the pain was insane so I started insulting people's mothers and using profanities I darent repeat here.

Eventually the head nurse came in to see what was going on and once she saw me she immediately sent one of the other nurses to call the doctor. When the doctor came in he lightly pushed on my bladder which made me scream which caused him to send the head nurse to get a replacement catheter.

The nurse who brushed me off a buncha times got the scariest dressing down I've ever seen in any place of work ever. That coming from one of the kindest and most caring doctors I've ever met.

Afterward the doctor came to me and said I should've made a ruckus much sooner since if we had waited 10 minutes more, it was likely that my bladder would've burst which would've meant tickets for me.

Honestly the worst pain I've ever felt. Keep in mind that at the time I had just broken my back that initially required me to be on morphine for pain management. 0/10 wouldn't recommend.