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
10 Tips From the Play Ground that help When Coping with an Embarrassing Disability
I don't know about you but I grew up in a rough neighborhood. It was rural Prunedale, California. Our school and playground got scrappy. I don't remember any of my friends asking me how I felt. ...
Pelvic Pain and Bladder Infections
Trudy talks about Pelvic Pain: Pelvic pain has many causes; endometriosis, menstruation, constipation, for me I am sure mine was caused by bladder infections that cropped up nonstop, because of my...
The Book, Beyond Embarrassment is more than my Memoir
I wrote my memoir as I blogged about the topic of neurologenic bladder over several years. My story is unfortunately common because bladder problems many times go undiagnosed and haunt many....
A Flacid Bladder Question for Trudy
Question for Trudy: Hi! First I want to say thanks for being brave and speaking out about this problem. I have small, flaccid neurogenic bladder. My question is should I wear diapers? I do wear...
Speech, Underactive Bladder Science and Policy, WA DC, March 10, 2017
CURE-UAB is the only meeting dedicated to underactive bladder. The conference should help to create awareness for the aging UAB. The goal of CURE-UAB is to dramatically increase public awareness and...
What came first, depression or infection?
I am interested in learning about how chronic infection can cause emotional drain and physical soreness. Recent medical evidence has reported that despair and a wounded spirit can be caused by...
Doctor will this exam help me?
This excerpt from my book Beyond Embarrassment is such a perfect example of a doctor going through the motions of an exam and me not asking enough questions at the end of the exam. I hope that if a...
Question..Will my bladder function come back?
Question: Hi "Trudy, I'm starting to urinate on my own after 5 months of a neurogenic bladder. Mine was caused by a viral infection of my brain and spinal cord. My diagnoses were Acute...
Starving the Tiger: How physical pain and worry about the outcome can cause depression.
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. Helen Keller Have depression? What you can do to help. Many years ago, I was diagnosed with neurogenic (under active/paralyzed)...