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

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Luce Brett Elaine Miller

PMSL

Or How I Literally Pissed Myself Laughing and Survived the Last Taboo to Tell the Tale

Luce Brett, Elaine Miller

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Green Tree
17 November 2020

Memoirs; Urology & urogenital medicine; Women's health; Coping with illness; Fitness & diet; Pregnancy, birth & baby care

'Warm, generous and genuinely useful' - Lynn Enright, author of Vagina: A re-education

'No better person to finally illuminate this last taboo than Luce Brett' - Milli Hill, author of The Positive Birth Book

'A breath of fresh air' - Anna Williamson, presenter, broadcaster and bestselling author of Breaking Mad

'If you have a bladder you should read this. If you work with people with bladders you should definitely read this' - Elaine Miller, Pelvic health physiotherapist and stand-up comedian

'A feminist roar of a health memoir ... a stigma-busting, generous, funny, moving book about an important subject' - David Nicholls, author of One Day

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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, dirty and shocked. How the hell had she ended up there, the youngest woman in the waiting room at the incontinence clinic?

PMSL is her story. A heartfelt, moving and deeply personal account of the decade that followed, told with incredible honesty and wit. Luce has been at the sharp end of a medical issue that affects 1 in 3 women but that remains shrouded in taboo and social stigma.

It's sincere, raw and funny - but crucially it is the first memoir to look at incontinence, smashing the stigma and looking at what anyone affected can do to navigate their way through the wet-knickered wilderness.

By: Luce Brett
Foreword by: Elaine Miller
Imprint: Green Tree
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm,
Weight: 458g
ISBN: 9781472977489
ISBN 10: 1472977483
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 17 November 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction by Elaine Miller Prologue: The Beginning – How did I get here? Part One: Pregnancy and childbirth 1 Speaking up 2 Childbirth – Expectations 3 Childbirth – Reality 4 Coming home 5 Six-week check 6 Damage assessment Part Two: Aftermath – Who am I now? 7 Depression 8 Survival 9 Booze 10 Starting again 11 Pelvis Part Three: Round 2 – Back for more 12 Childbirth – Again 13 Physiotherapy 14 Urogynaecology 15 History 16 Surgery Part Four: The final taboos 17 Potty training 18 Poo 19 Stigma 20 Sex Part Five: Lessons 21 Feminism 22 PMSL 23 Men 24 Medics 25 Coping Epilogue – The Ending: How did I get here? What if you are leaky too? Talking to doctors about your private parts – written with GP Rachel Boyce Getting help and information for a broken body Getting help and information for a broken mind References Acknowledgements Index

Luce Brett was born in 1977 and learned about her nether regions from More! magazine, other peoples' big sisters, Tampax leaflets and her mother's copy of Our Bodies, Ourselves. She became incontinent after the birth of her first child. She has spoken about her condition in print, online and on national radio, most recently on BBC Radio’s The Naked Podcast, where she stripped with the hosts to talk about how leaking affected everything from her ability to enjoy a party to her sex life. She hopes this book will help other people speak up and start the conversation about continence.

Reviews for PMSL: Or How I Literally Pissed Myself Laughing and Survived the Last Taboo to Tell the Tale

Warm, generous and genuinely useful. Women will be pressing PMSL into each other's hands - and they'll be doing so without any shame because of the brilliant stigma-busting outlook of this book. * Lynn Enright * There is no better person to finally illuminate this last taboo than Luce Brett. * Milli Hill * A breath of fresh air. * Anna Williamson *