Dammit! Wet the bed again.
Question:
I.P., You are truly a "Coping Skills’ guru! My inferior method is to first go crazy, then adapt. Steve U
Response:
I do go crazy over things I should be able to control, like threading a nut on a bolt with my head up my RV chassis. And I’ll be in truly deep despair when this beast interferes with IMPORTANT things in my life, but how important is a wet spot in the bed, fixable by a change of bed pad, diaper, and PJs? I can think of 10 or 20 far worse effects of this beast, not even counting impotence or death. And, ya know, those nuts and bolts in my RV and the three times I’ve wet the bed since my surgery in October bother me a whole lot less now that I’ve gained some perspective on what’s actually important and what isn’t. I.P.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I.P., You are truly a "Coping Skills’ guru! My inferior method is to first go crazy, then adapt. Steve U
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I.P., you have an amazingly good and strong attitude about life. You have a lot to teach us humans about how to get along. God bless you!
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I.P., you have an amazingly good and strong attitude about life. You have a lot to teach us humans about how to get along. God bless you!
She already has. What ELSE are we gonna do . . . get upset about something beyond our control? Give me something (important) I CAN control and I can get quite controlling; hit me with a meteor and I’m gonna do my best to make a Pet Rock out of it. Anything less makes little sense. I’ve had a TON of exciting fun so far in my life . . . way ahead of most people. That’s cash in the bank, and it can’t be taken away from me even by the IRS. I.P.
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Thought I was over that many months ago, so the bed pad was bunched off to one side. Woke up in a pool, probably a long time after the dam burst. Probably just so sound asleep that the sphincter failed AND I slept through it AND my moderate diaper didn’t absorb the hit. It wasn’t completely full, so there was also an aiming issue. Moral of the story: Make no assumptions, keep the pad in place and a fresh one nearby, keep a couple of towels handy, and keep the Nature’s Miracle (or whatever brand of pet cleanup enzyme you choose) nearby. There’s no way I’m completely making a new bed in the middle of the night, and no point in waking up the wife unless she floated away. Protect the mattress, use towels or fresh mattress pads to isolate yourself from the wet spots, change PJs and underwear, go back to sleep, and change the bedding in the morning. We slept in worse as infants, and will do so again before it’s all over. It’s not worth losing a couple of hours of sleep over. I.P.
I’m over 3 years post RP, and I was basically continent 48 hours afterward. However, I have had two bed-wetting incidents, and two where I caught myself starting. A couple of times I was dreaming about urinating and actually doing it. I think that one of the reasons I’m up several times during the night to visit the john is I’m afraid of letting it go too long. I havent worn pads since those first 48 hours. However, when I’m visiting in someone’s home or on vacation, I wear them at night. I wouldnt want to wet someone else’s bed!
Response:
Thought I was over that many months ago, so the bed pad was bunched off to one side. Woke up in a pool, probably a long time after the dam burst. Probably just so sound asleep that the sphincter failed AND I slept through it AND my moderate diaper didn’t absorb the hit. It wasn’t completely full, so there was also an aiming issue. Moral of the story: Make no assumptions, keep the pad in place and a fresh one nearby, keep a couple of towels handy, and keep the Nature’s Miracle (or whatever brand of pet cleanup enzyme you choose) nearby. There’s no way I’m completely making a new bed in the middle of the night, and no point in waking up the wife unless she floated away. Protect the mattress, use towels or fresh mattress pads to isolate yourself from the wet spots, change PJs and underwear, go back to sleep, and change the bedding in the morning. We slept in worse as infants, and will do so again before it’s all over. It’s not worth losing a couple of hours of sleep over. I.P.
