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As hinted at in another post, here is my ‘Embarrassing at the time, but funny now’ story.
Before I get started I want to explain the reason for this post. In dealing with bedwetting or incontinence most of us have probably had situations that were soooo embarrassing to us at the time it happened, but now with it being years in the past we look back at it with humour. So as you read my story think back to an incident or situation that embarrassed you at the time but now look back at it with humour and consider sharing. Now I totally get that not all situation that were embarrassing back when it happened magically turn humours with age. Some things are just too embarrassing.
So to my story. As you all know by now my issue is with enuresis, bedwetting. I’ve been dealing with it since I was a teen. I consider myself one of the fortunate ones since it has never been a chronic problem. Just an occasional annoyance that sometimes happens more frequently and sometimes less frequently. During the time of this story I was in my mid 20’s, out of college and establishing myself in the work world. My bedwetting was sporadic with having a wet night once every few months or so. During times of stress or when exhausted the frequency would increase and could even happened twice or more in one week. Finals week in college was pretty wet.
At the time, to protect my bed I just had one of those fitted white plastic mattress covers on my bed and then a fitted sheet. I’d also put a beach towel under the fitted sheet since the plastic did not absorb anything. Now being the young adult finally free from college and out on his own I didn’t always pay attention to my occasional issue. I’d not pay attention to the plastic cover and not realize that it had tears in it (if you ever used them you know they don’t last very long before getting holes or tears in them) Other times I’d forget to put it back on after washing everything. So as you can expect there were a few times that I wet my unprotected bed. Not knowing how to clean the mattress I usually just spray something like a carpet cleaner on the wet area, sprinkle baking soda on the bed and dab it with a towel. (one time not knowing the difference I put baking powder on the bed instead of baking soda, boy I was an idiot).
As you can imagine the few unprotected wettings of the bed and my lack of knowledge of how to properly clean the mattress lead to some noticeable stains on my mattress. Due to their placement it was obvious to anyone who saw my mattress that a bedwetter had slept there. One day when I was remaking the bed after a wet morning, protected bed this time whew, I was getting ready to put the plastic cover back on and really noticed how bad my mattress look. Even though it was just me in the room and apartment for that matter I got really really embarrassed about my mattress and even more so at the reason why it had the stains, my bedwetting. I thought about buying a new mattress but being cheap I pulled the pro bedwetter move, I flipped the mattress. Bam fresh clean looking mattress. I was still embarrassed but quite proud of myself for my solution.
Fast forward about a year and a half latter and it is moving day. I was moving out of this apartment to another one. Still being relatively fresh from college and cheap I didn’t have a whole lot of stuff to move so asked a few friends to come over and help me. I had a plan to keep my bedwetting a secret from my friends. That morning before they came I took the plastic cover off my bed and boxed it up with some blankets. I also put the opened pack of GoodNites that I had in the bottom of the box and taped it up so the box would only be moved and not opened. My plan was perfect. Perfect that was until the plan fell apart right before my eyes.
I was in the bedroom with my two friends getting ready to move the bed. They grabbed the mattress while I got the head and foot board and frame thing. As they are carrying out the mattress they had to turn it on its side to get through the doors. When we get outside they flip the mattress back flat. Unfortunately they flipped it to where the bottom side was now on top. I had totally forgot about my bedwetting stains on the bottom side, and there in the bright sun for all to see was my pee stains. I just froze staring at the shame displayed on my mattress.
I thought, maybe they wont notice. That lasted about a half a second. One friend goes, “JT what is this? Have you had this bed since you were 5.” The other friend laughs and chimes in with, “Don’t even try and tell us you spilled water in your bed. My cousin tried that and it aint work for him either.” I was like dang I was just about to use the spilled water excuse too. I must have been redder than a tomato but I tried to play it off. I first tried to say I bought the bed from a thrift shop and they were already on there, didn’t notice until I got it home and couldn't return it. That didn't work, I forgot one of the friends had help me move into this apparent. He goes, “Not buying it bro, remember I helped you move in and when I did this same mattress didn’t have any stains on it then.” I don’t even know what I said or tried to say next I was soooo humiliated, embarrassed and ashamed all at the same time. My friends, who BTW are very cool, must have noticed how upset I was about them seeing the stains and one goes, “Its cool JT anyone can have an accident and wet the bed.” The other goes, “Yeah my cousin did it into high school.” Then they said a few things like, don’t worry about it, it happens, not big deal, ya know all those trying to comfort phrases. I kinda nodded my head but was still feeling absolutely awful about it. Nothing more was said about it and we finished the move.
At the time I was so mortified and ashamed that they knew I had wet my bed as an adult at least several time based on the few stains. The were cool about it and we were joking and laughing like almost normal by the end of the day. I know I was a little off for the next week or so when ever we got together worried that they might bring it up or tell our other friends about my bedwetting stains. They never brought it up again and I finally got over it.
Now looking back I find it to be a pretty funny story and reflect on crazy 20 something me trying to hide his bedwetting from his friends.
So thats my embarrassing then, but funny now story. What’s yours?
Before I get started I want to explain the reason for this post. In dealing with bedwetting or incontinence most of us have probably had situations that were soooo embarrassing to us at the time it happened, but now with it being years in the past we look back at it with humour. So as you read my story think back to an incident or situation that embarrassed you at the time but now look back at it with humour and consider sharing. Now I totally get that not all situation that were embarrassing back when it happened magically turn humours with age. Some things are just too embarrassing.
So to my story. As you all know by now my issue is with enuresis, bedwetting. I’ve been dealing with it since I was a teen. I consider myself one of the fortunate ones since it has never been a chronic problem. Just an occasional annoyance that sometimes happens more frequently and sometimes less frequently. During the time of this story I was in my mid 20’s, out of college and establishing myself in the work world. My bedwetting was sporadic with having a wet night once every few months or so. During times of stress or when exhausted the frequency would increase and could even happened twice or more in one week. Finals week in college was pretty wet.
At the time, to protect my bed I just had one of those fitted white plastic mattress covers on my bed and then a fitted sheet. I’d also put a beach towel under the fitted sheet since the plastic did not absorb anything. Now being the young adult finally free from college and out on his own I didn’t always pay attention to my occasional issue. I’d not pay attention to the plastic cover and not realize that it had tears in it (if you ever used them you know they don’t last very long before getting holes or tears in them) Other times I’d forget to put it back on after washing everything. So as you can expect there were a few times that I wet my unprotected bed. Not knowing how to clean the mattress I usually just spray something like a carpet cleaner on the wet area, sprinkle baking soda on the bed and dab it with a towel. (one time not knowing the difference I put baking powder on the bed instead of baking soda, boy I was an idiot).
As you can imagine the few unprotected wettings of the bed and my lack of knowledge of how to properly clean the mattress lead to some noticeable stains on my mattress. Due to their placement it was obvious to anyone who saw my mattress that a bedwetter had slept there. One day when I was remaking the bed after a wet morning, protected bed this time whew, I was getting ready to put the plastic cover back on and really noticed how bad my mattress look. Even though it was just me in the room and apartment for that matter I got really really embarrassed about my mattress and even more so at the reason why it had the stains, my bedwetting. I thought about buying a new mattress but being cheap I pulled the pro bedwetter move, I flipped the mattress. Bam fresh clean looking mattress. I was still embarrassed but quite proud of myself for my solution.
Fast forward about a year and a half latter and it is moving day. I was moving out of this apartment to another one. Still being relatively fresh from college and cheap I didn’t have a whole lot of stuff to move so asked a few friends to come over and help me. I had a plan to keep my bedwetting a secret from my friends. That morning before they came I took the plastic cover off my bed and boxed it up with some blankets. I also put the opened pack of GoodNites that I had in the bottom of the box and taped it up so the box would only be moved and not opened. My plan was perfect. Perfect that was until the plan fell apart right before my eyes.
I was in the bedroom with my two friends getting ready to move the bed. They grabbed the mattress while I got the head and foot board and frame thing. As they are carrying out the mattress they had to turn it on its side to get through the doors. When we get outside they flip the mattress back flat. Unfortunately they flipped it to where the bottom side was now on top. I had totally forgot about my bedwetting stains on the bottom side, and there in the bright sun for all to see was my pee stains. I just froze staring at the shame displayed on my mattress.
I thought, maybe they wont notice. That lasted about a half a second. One friend goes, “JT what is this? Have you had this bed since you were 5.” The other friend laughs and chimes in with, “Don’t even try and tell us you spilled water in your bed. My cousin tried that and it aint work for him either.” I was like dang I was just about to use the spilled water excuse too. I must have been redder than a tomato but I tried to play it off. I first tried to say I bought the bed from a thrift shop and they were already on there, didn’t notice until I got it home and couldn't return it. That didn't work, I forgot one of the friends had help me move into this apparent. He goes, “Not buying it bro, remember I helped you move in and when I did this same mattress didn’t have any stains on it then.” I don’t even know what I said or tried to say next I was soooo humiliated, embarrassed and ashamed all at the same time. My friends, who BTW are very cool, must have noticed how upset I was about them seeing the stains and one goes, “Its cool JT anyone can have an accident and wet the bed.” The other goes, “Yeah my cousin did it into high school.” Then they said a few things like, don’t worry about it, it happens, not big deal, ya know all those trying to comfort phrases. I kinda nodded my head but was still feeling absolutely awful about it. Nothing more was said about it and we finished the move.
At the time I was so mortified and ashamed that they knew I had wet my bed as an adult at least several time based on the few stains. The were cool about it and we were joking and laughing like almost normal by the end of the day. I know I was a little off for the next week or so when ever we got together worried that they might bring it up or tell our other friends about my bedwetting stains. They never brought it up again and I finally got over it.
Now looking back I find it to be a pretty funny story and reflect on crazy 20 something me trying to hide his bedwetting from his friends.
So thats my embarrassing then, but funny now story. What’s yours?
