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
Snowflake Babies and my Neurogenic Bladder
Many of us do not have a problem with the medical use of mature stem cells but the medical use of embryonic stem cells prompts a moral outcry in my soul....
Potential of Stem Cell Therapy for the Neurogenic Bladder
The time is ripe, I hear. within our lifetimes. There is hope for more than just treatment, but an actual cure . . . the flood gates are open through life-saving research that is happening as I...
B12 & Zinc and & Other Obsoletes with a Neurogenic Bladder
Imagine the shock, when I learned, that after chugging down my morning disgusting, foul tasting, B12 supplements, mixed with other vitamins every morning, that I was...
Neurogenic Bladder Story Line, Come on Hollywood
Ok Hollywood, walk a mile in my shoes. Julie and Julia, a movie, born from a blogger who wrote about her passion in life and her sense of adventure as she decides to not...
Where, Oh Where, Has My Sacral Nerve Gone? Uroplasty?
Yesterday I went in for a urology appointment. My urologist scheduled me for some tests and had a heart to heart about my sacral nerves. She is convinced that in my lifetime,...
Traveling with a Neurogenic Bladder and Bowel
For many of us a trip or vacation can add stress to our lives. We are thrown off our schedule and the location of the next toilet we use, is unpredictable, yet something happens to my attitude when...
Depression and Neurogenic Bladder
The best way I can decribe my depression is feeling happy and sad at the same time. What is this cold and gloomy winter about anyway? Why do I feel...
Burning Labia Pure Distraction
Did you know that 75% of women will get a yeast infection sometime in their lives? A burning labia is a reason to visit a doctor….or is it? As a woman with a neurogenic bladder I tend to...
Coping Strategies with a Neurogenic Bladder and Bowel
Having coping strategies in place is more than important and necessary for a healthy productive life. The goal for us is to go out and live our lives. Often there is pain involved for...