More than one-third of women are living with urinary incontinence.
It's time to talk about it.
PMSL is one woman's story, 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.
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?
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 no one has been brave enough to come forward and
break the silence in such an acutely personal and public way.
