ACCEPTING INCONTINENC DIAPERS AND PULLUPS Community Group
HELPING EACH OTHER WITH INCONTINENCE ISSUES AND GETTING OVER THE SOCIAL STIGMA OF HAVING TO USE ,WEAR AND BUY ABSORBENT PRODUCT SUCH AS DIAPERS AND PULL-UPS
I wear nappies 24/7 to manage my incontinence and was recently in hospital and needed help changing. The nurse was asking me about when I lost bladder control and how I came to wearing nappies and I explained that I had tried meds, catheters etc but always got UTIs and so preferred wearing nappies. When I was talking to her, I explained how I had wet the bed as a child, was in nappies til I was 6, was then dry for a few years but started wetting the bed again aged 11 and was back in nappies again until I was 14, when I was pretty reliably dry. Then in my mid 20s I suffered a spinal injury and once again I started wetting the bed. After trying various things without success my incontinence nurse suggested I go back to wearing nappies. Subsequent spinal issues led to me losing daytime control and by my mid 30s I was in nappies 24/7. I am now 64 and as we were talking realised that I had been in nappies for all bar 17 years!
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So I have been having a lot of health issues and my cardiologist felt that he didn't get clear enough images of my heart in the office, so he wanted to do a Trans-esophegeal heart Echocardiocgram in the hospital. I was pretty nervous about it, because I've never had any procedures related to my heart or any other major organs. I've had knee surgery and thyroid surgery, but to me anything to do...
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