Beyond Embarrassment: Reclaiming Your Life with Neurogenic Bladder and Bowel

by JoAnne Lake, Lora Plaskon, MD, MS (Introduction)

Overview

JoAnne's story is engaging. It inspires, while offering suggestions for managing life's hurdles. In an honest, will-to-succeed style, this journey focuses on neurogenic bladder and bowel condition in which a person lacks control due to a brain spinal cord or nerve condition. The source can be aging, a chronic health condition, trauma, or many other causes. Often called an under active or over active bladder or bowel, its symptoms vary but the difficult daily reality is shared.
• Valuable guide, much like a fresh prescription filled with practical advice
• Educates, empathizes, and encourages women who struggle with the same health issue
• Written with a girlfriend-to girlfriend feel, sharing the path to survival and success
• Sprinkled with Tips and Knowledge Nuggets that high light points of importance
• Encouraging and equipping the reader to live every day to the utmost

With medical input from expert medical research librarian and Biosleuth, Julia Parker, readers will discover current research and facts equipping them to meet their medical challenges and work with their medical teams. Valuable for healthcare professionals to share with patients

Product Details

BN ID:	2940158320729
Publisher:	Triumph Media Press
Publication date:	06/27/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	266
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

JoAnne Lake, a farm girl from Prunedale, California, is an insistent patient (forthright and wordy) because she is one of five million people in America with bladder problems and wants to start a conversation. She likes to tell it like it is.
The secret of her success is embracing the state of affairs with luminosity and honesty by taking the punch away.
JoAnne does not want to be remembered in connection to the toilet, yet she sees toileting dysfunction as the last frontier of subjects that needs to have a mature conversation. Her writings come from life experiences and emotions as a patient, mother, educator, and friend. After journaling her private thoughts and feelings, she started writing a highly successful blog in 2012 to educate and inspire others with bladder and bowel problems.

Editorial Reviews

"Offers a candid memoir of her experience with neurogenic bladder and a wealth of practical advice about coping with its daily complications. An invaluable resource for NB sufferers."

Kirkus Reviewer

"This is the best and most complete book on neurogenic bladder syndrome that I have read in my 30 years of family practice medicine. I will use it again and again as a resource and refer my patients to read this excellent book."

Kathy Matteson