In view of recent discussion, useful article re Stress Incontinence - lighthearted but useful:

[MaryF]

telegraph.co.uk/women/women...

Mary F x

[CanaryDiamond10]

JUST EVERY NOW AND THEN....

Good morning Mary! Thank you for a hilarious read to wake this morning! I run into this problem just every now and then. Humor is the ONLY way to master it. Thank you so much for this article. I know many a woman who runs into this,"just every now and then".

There have been times when the 4 girls that I grew up with and I get together. We, for some psychic reason, become on the same bathroom schedule. Everyone gets up at exactly the same time and mad dashes for a bathroom! I do my exercises and thank the good Lord I had my children Cesarean, or having bladder cancer and a quarterly cystoscopy (camera through the urethra for a panoramic view you can watch right next to your cot as the doctor searches for those nasty cancer symptoms) I am sure that combined with my age of 61, I should have this problem much more than I do. But I do have the problem - just every now and then. My dearest friend of over 50 years had the gastro bypass ten years ago. But with the weight loss came lack of muscle tone. Suffice it to say she gets this problem "just every now and then". Another friend is a full time cross country skier in Crested Butte, Colorado. She actually has abs and the body of a 20 year old! She is 62, When skiing is not in season she mountain climbs the oddities of the world with her partner. She's been with him 45 years, never married, and traveled the world. She has this problem - every now and then, not that it bothers her! She can relieve herself ANYWHERE! Another friend in Michigan had 3 children naturally. Stood on her feet either making ice cream cones at their Dairy Queen Ice cream place or cooking for her very enormous Italian family. We all have our reasons. We all laugh till the tears roll. When the tears roll we all laugh! Oh Gee, what will we be laughing at when we are 70? I can't wait to forward this article to my fellow Divas.

Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful sense of humor, Mary.

CanaryDiamond10

[MaryF Administrator in reply to CanaryDiamond10]

Oh good... I must say I am one for the dawn gallops in the morning, the UK Grand National has nothing on me.... I always do my blood pressure and temperature on waking in the morning, for my nutritionist regarding thyroid issues. . I awake an am supposed to this before getting out bed ... and it is almost torture trying to do this...as I awake with a bladder that feels like a pricked balloon. once done.. I literally attempt to reach the bathroom faster than the speed of light. Mary F x

[CanaryDiamond10]

I have to do my b/p too and the darn 3 minutes it takes for the blood pressure is the longest 3 minutes ever. But at least I don't have sleep disturbance anymore. I can sleep all night without stumbling down that dark path to the bathroom. That's an improvement I think I can thank simple keegles and pelvic floor muscle exercises for. You know the old "stop, go, stop, go and then wait about 3 long minutes (holding) and sure enough there will be a little more to completely empty your bladder. Learned that one on Oprah! Also, thedoctors.com has addressed this issue many times with both laughter and grave seriousness. I don't find this difficult to apply a sense of humor, but I do respect that there are other women out there who do not take it as lightly as I do.

I was preconditioned. I had a younger brother, Richard. When we were children, when I was allowed in school, we were "walkers". We lived close enough to every school we went to, to walk instead of taking the bus or parent drop off. At 3:00 PM we would get out of school and my brother was suppose to watch me all the way home. He would beat me home every day and lock the sliding glass doors, seconds ahead of me, knowing full well I had to go to the bathroom so bad I would wet. He would laugh hysterically and after making certain his devilish scheme was a complete success, would then unlock the door. Even if I wanted to I wasn't stronger, faster or big enough to get my revenge upon him and he knew I never would be. He's probably still laughing in Heaven, God bless his devious soul.

Smiles,

Canary

[MaryF Administrator in reply to CanaryDiamond10]

Yes, well I suffer from the stress of get to the bog first rather than stress incontinence, but good article any how. Best wishes. MaryF x

[CanaryDiamond10 in reply to MaryF]

I've read the bog and the loo. Any other words meaning the bath or lavatory that I am liable to run into in the UK?

[Jillymo]

Powder room

Bog,

Lav

Throne

Privy

Crapper

Khazi

To name just a few. I cant reach any of them in time ! I always say i am going to the bathroom

[lynzy]

Thank you Mary F, that was hilarious. X

[MaryF Administrator in reply to lynzy]

Oh good! Mary F x

[MaryF Administrator]

Ha Ha....MF xxx