Reclaim your life. Release the fear and embarrassment.
JoAnne Lake shares the details of her difficult journey living with neurogenic bladder and bowel.
Reclaim your life. Release the fear and embarrassment.
JoAnne Lake shares the details of her difficult journey living with neurogenic bladder and bowel.
Knowledge & Support
Real life tips plus the latest medical research from JoAnne’s blog.
Encouragement
Read the stories of others from JoAnne’s Circle of Friends as we walk through neurogenic bladder and bowel together.
Meet JoAnne
As she shares her journey from diagnosis to living a meaningful life with neurogenic bladder & bowel
Resources
Looking for answers to questions we haven’t addressed in the blog? Start here.
Media
Are you interested in interviewing JoAnne or having her on your podcast? Media resources are here.
Favorite Things
JoAnne has compiled a list of some of her favorite things – items that help her to live a meaningful life
“Lake’s debut offers a candid memoir of her experience with neurogenic bladder and a wealth of practical advice about coping with its daily complications. . . The text, attractively laid out with leaf motifs and inset boxes, is packed with helpful tips on diet, exercise, hygiene, and intimacy issues. . . Appendices list suggested products, books, and websites, and the glossary is especially useful. . . An invaluable resource for NB sufferers.”
Awards for Beyond Embarrassment
Meet JoAnne Lake
Pelvic Pain, Wellness Starts with “We”
Please allow me to introduce a guest author, Faith whom I met at the Blogher confrence in San Jose. Like me she has a passion to help women with a personal medical problem that is not so easy...
Circle of Friends: Faith’s Story
Dear Trudy, Thank you for writing this blog. As a fellow blogger writing about a taboo subject, I really appreciate the bravery it takes to post on such a sensitive topic. I write here as an...
Bowel Management with a Neurogenic Bladder and Bowel
In this blog I generally share primarily about my bladder. But I also have a neurogenic bowel. Usually I keep things going (my bowel movements) with my dietary regimen and physical...
What happens when I can’t cath myself? Foley Catheter, NO THANK YOU!
Frederick Foley redesigned this catheter in 1932. What is scary about this is that not much has changed with this device, in my opinion, a much overused catheter. It is a known fact that...
Neurogenic Bladder, I Want to Thrive, Not Just Be
Thrive, the book by Arianna Huffington Last week I had the opportunity to participate in the Blogher Conference, in San Jose, California. There I met other passionate women who,...
Neurogenic Bladder Device RIP-OFF
The ability for me to conveniently choose and buy the catheter I need is a matter of life and death. We female intermittent catheter users do not have the ability to go to a catheter...
Uses for my Right and Left Hand
Allow me to introduce to you my handsome sons. They along with my two daughters are a source of a great deal of pride and joy in my life. I learn from them every day and I...
Questions from a Reader of neurogenicbladder.me – The Diagnostic Process
We have a disability that is not easy to talk about. One of the primary purposes of this blog is to allow us to talk freely about a topic that is in most circles unspeakable. Not long ago I...
What do ya know? . . . Another Bladder Infection!
I don't mean to whine but this bladder business of constantly fighting off infections is hard to take. Lately I have barely completed a series of antibiotics, only to get another bladder...