PMSL: Or How I Literally Pissed Myself Laughing and Survived the - Last Taboo to Tell the Tal

Around 34. of women are living with urinary incontinence. 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? PMSL is her story, tracking the decade that followed, 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. 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 nobody has been brave enough to come forward and break the silence in such an acutely personal way.

Product details

• Authors: Luce Brett, BRETT LUCE
• Assisted by: Elaine Miller (Foreword), Miller Elaine (Foreword)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781472977489
• ISBN: 978-1-4729-7748-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 225 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Health; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, HEALTH & FITNESS / Women's Health, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Genitourinary & STDs, Women's health, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (incl. Patients), Women’s health, Pregnancy, birth & baby care, Pregnancy, birth and baby care: advice and issues, Urology & urogenital medicine, Urology and urogenital medicine, Subject matter intended specifically for women and/or girls