PMSL: Or How I Literally Pissed Myself Laughing and Survived the Last Taboo to Tell the Tale
PMSL: Or How I Literally Pissed Myself Laughing and Survived the Last Taboo to Tell the Tale
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More than one-third of women are living with urinary incontinence. It's time to talk about it.
PMSL is one woman's story, providing a razor sharp perspective from the sharp end of a medical issue that affects 1 in 3 women but that remains shrouded in taboo and social stigma, an untold story of a common condition. It's heartfelt, raw and funny--but crucially it is the first memoir to look at incontinence, lifting the lid on what anyone affected can do to navigate their way through the wet-knickered wilderness and what we can learn about ourselves, individually, and as a society cowed by our shamed bodies and desperate for information and control.
When Luce Brett became incontinent at the age of 30 after the birth of her first son, she felt her life had ended. She also felt scared, upset, embarrassed, itchy, bewildered, dirty, shocked, broken, desolate, angry and ashamed. How the hell had she ended up there, the youngest woman in the waiting room at the incontinence clinic?
Charting Luce's journey to (relative) health and sanity PMSL also offers practical advice about how and where women can find help and support, with a final chapter directing readers to useful links and organisations.
It's not good enough for women to be told that post-birth they should expect their lives to be diminished along with their pelvic floor function, but to date no one has been brave enough to come forward and break the silence in such an acutely personal and public way.
Table of Contents
Prologue: The Beginning – How did I get here?
Part One: Pregnancy and childbirth
1 Speaking up
2 Childbirth – Expectations
3 Childbirth – Reality
4 Coming home
5 Six-week check
6 Damage assessment
Part Two: Aftermath – Who am I now?
7 Depression
8 Survival
9 Booze
10 Starting again
11 Pelvis
Part Three: Round 2 – Back for more
12 Childbirth – Again
13 Physiotherapy
14 Urogynaecology
15 History
16 Surgery
Part Four: The final taboos
17 Potty training
18 Poo
19 Stigma
20 Sex
Part Five: Lessons
21 Feminism
22 PMSL
23 Men
24 Medics
25 Coping
Epilogue – The Ending: How did I get here?
What if you are leaky too?
Talking to doctors about your private parts – written with GP Rachel Boyce
Getting help and information for a broken body
Getting help and information for a broken mind
References
Acknowledgements
Index
Product details
| Published | Sep 01 2020 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 320 |
| ISBN | 9781472977489 |
| Imprint | Green Tree |
| Dimensions | 9 x 5 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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