The ERIC Helpline Podcast: for families with children affected by bowel and bladder conditions - Living with a chronic bladder condition, Joe's story

Living with a chronic bladder condition, Joe's story

07/13/23 • 20 min

The ERIC Helpline Podcast: for families with children affected by bowel and bladder conditions

Joe was born with a bladder condition. And further surgery as a child affected how his bowel worked.

He has faced many challenges growing up and wants to share how he navigated his way through life at school, to being a teenager, and then a student at university.

Joe shares the things he has learned along the way, how he has had to accept his disability and how it has become part of who he is as a person.

Joe was born with a bladder condition. And further surgery as a child affected how his bowel worked.

He has faced many challenges growing up and wants to share how he navigated his way through life at school, to being a teenager, and then a student at university.

Joe shares the things he has learned along the way, how he has had to accept his disability and how it has become part of who he is as a person.

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In a follow up to episode 8, ERIC Nurse Brenda Cheer explains what parents and carers need to do if their child's bladder problem hasn't been resolved by working on the four steps to a healthy bladder that were explained in Part 1. They cover what parents and carers should do if bladder problems still persist.

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