But plenty of them these days go to school or sleepovers in "pull-ups," a big-kid diaper that looks more like regular underwear - often emblazoned with Disney or other cartoon characters - to guard against accidents while at the same time avoiding the stigma of being labeled a
bed-wetter.
IN MY schooldays it was considered important to feature near the tops of league tables: your team - whether it was the under-14s, classicists, nail-biters or
bed-wetters - did its damnedest to outperform those of other ages and disciplines, at cricket, soccer, or the acquisition of badges for tying complicated knots.
The boys' common bond is their inability to compete and counselors and peers call them "the
bed-wetters." One field trip involves witnessing a state-sanctioned buffalo slaughter by hunters.
I'm considering getting a plastic under-sheet, like one of those for
bed-wetters.'
And if you think the instrument line-up sounds a little different from your usual indie
bed-wetters, look at the list of influences: Stevie Wonder, The Pixies, Indigo Girls, Lee Perry and Janis Joplin to name a few.
Today, a third of the Ireland and Britain's one million
bed-wetters are teenagers and adults.
In some
bed-wetters, there is no increase, or it's insufficient, resulting in an overproduction of urine and, thus, bed-wetting," notes Lane Robson, a pediatric nephrologist at The Children's Hospital, Greenville, S.C.
Other guys with less skill on the field, who also were
bed-wetters, suffered more taunting than I.
Bill, Coronation Street's Ken Barlow, was put in a special dormitory for
bed-wetters at his stuffy boarding school.
For example, while it is estimated that only 15% of all children are enuretic, this figure increases to 45% when one parent was enuretic and 75% if both parents were
bed-wetters.
