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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A story of taking her life back, learning to advocate for herself, shed the shame and stand proud. A personal story, health tips, practical help, and the latest medical research. A ready resource for women who live with bladder problems and anyone who faces a challenging physical condition- will educate, encourage, and inspire.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Reclaim Your Life. Release the Fear and Embarrassment. For Women Who Suffer and Those Who Share Their Journey.</p> <p>JoAnne's story is engaging. It inspires, while offering suggestions for managing life's hurdles. In an honest, will-to-succeed style, this journey focuses on a neurogenic bladder and bowel condition in which a person lacks control due to a brain, spinal cord, or nerve condition. The source can be aging, a chronic health condition, trauma, or many other causes. Whether diagnosis is an underactive or overactive bladder, with varying symptoms, the difficult daily reality is shared.</p> <p>- Valuable guide, much like a fresh prescription filled with practical advice</p> <p>- Educates, empathizes, and encourages women who struggle with the same</p> <p> health issue</p> <p>- Written with a girlfriend-to-girlfriend feel, sharing the path to survival and</p> <p> success</p> <p>- Sprinkled with Tips and Knowledge Nuggets that highlight points of</p> <p> importance</p> <p>- Equips the reader to live every day to the utmost</p> <p>With input from expert medical research librarian and Biosleuth, Julia Parker, readers will discover current research and facts, equipping them to meet their challenges and work with medical teams. Valuable for healthcare professionals to share with patients.</p> <p> </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A "very powerful and important book . . . an impressive achievement." - Jonathan Kirsch, Attorney, Trademarks, Publishing, and Copyright Law Beyond Embarrassment is for everyone who has ever had to face a daunting medical or physical challenge. It is truly inspiring, offering suggestions for managing life's hurdles. I was engaged with JoAnne's story and have no doubt others will be too. While I was prepared for the book's medical content, what really made a lasting impression is JoAnne's honest, forthcoming and will-to-succeed story. None of us wants to end up with a neurogenic bowel and bladder, as JoAnne shares, but few can overcome what could be such a life halting condition, as she has done. It is within her generous spirit to tell about her experience. Her goal is to help others avoid the show stopping situations that she had to confront. I particularly like the Knowledge Nuggets and Tips. Each highlights points that JoAnne feels would be of particular importance to readers. And, I agree, they are! I strongly recommend that health care professionals read this and share with their patients who would benefit from JoAnne's story. It will make for better, more understanding practitioners, and enhance their patients' will to succeed. - Elaine Plummer, RN, BSN, Always Discreet Ambassador "Beyond Embarrassment is a book that helps friends, family, and those afflicted with a Neurogenic Bladder understand and deal with it. As our population ages, you know or will know, someone with a neurogenic bladder. Problems develop from hereditary genes, from accidents, from trauma, from aging, from diseases totally unassociated with bladder issues. JoAnne Lake has studied and written a face-saving book for those who have to deal with this condition. Frank, open and researched to the max with Julia Parker, it explores the ways of dealing with this malady. "An excellent resource book and one that lets you know you are not alone and can avoid the embarrassment." - James A. Misko, Award Winning Author of All My Fathers Were and three other novels JoAnne Lake has written from a unique vantage point as she has both the condition and a vast knowledge of that condition. She writes a reliable guide and a fresh prescription for those who are living with the diagnosis of neurogenic bladder/bowel and for those who suspect they are. It is the best and most complete book on neurogenic bladder syndrome that I have read in my 30 years of family practice medicine. I will use it again and again as a resource and I will refer my patients to read this excellent book. - Kathy Matteson, BS, MN, FNP, ND, Medical Provider Facing life with an enduring affliction, especially one that carries intimate secrets about indiscreet body functioning, is weaved with a very an emotional component. JoAnne tells her story with honesty and transparency, with a generous heart to help others. She addresses the grief experienced from the loss of a normal life, lack of desire by those close to her to understand her condition as a result of their own embarrassment, the shame and isolation, all of which can lead to feelings of hopelessness and depression. This book is a must read for anyone facing these challenges. As you read, JoAnne will become a trusted friend that you be grateful to have along on your personal journey. Phyllis Oswald Rogers, MA, Licensed Mental Health Counselor<br>

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