My dog has an unbelievable bladder capacity. He's only a skinny 15kg collie but I reckon he'd go 24hrs without having a wee if we let him. If he ever reached the capacity required to force him to go he'd probably flood out the house.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Not drinking in the evening can cause urine to be more concentrated and therefore more likely to trigger the need to pee in the night.
Children with nighttime enuresis can often be helped by ensuring they have enough to drink before going to bed.
I drink a couple of glasses of water in the evening and have a bottle of water by my bed and usually drink from it two or three times during the night, however I probably only get up to go to the loo in the night once or twice a week at the most and I’m only a few months from my 70th birthday.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I was fine until the surgeon took my prostate out, 12 rounds of radio therapy a year later didn't help. That was 15 years ago. The upside is if they hadn't done it I probably wouldn't be here by now.
No cemeteries here @Lyn but the veg plot is a good 100 yards from the nearest loo and I have to faff with opening and shutting the gate to keep the chooks in. Pelvic floor control is a must for me but OH can just point it at the compost heaps when the need arises. Design flaw? And given that design flaw surely men should wear skirts and the women wear the trousers!
My Curmudge? I did a defibrillator course on Monday. It involved kneeling to do the compressions. My stupid arthritic knee did not like it so I limped all Monday pm, slept badly for 2 nights and was in pain all yesterday. Better today thank goodness but grim. Good job I can still touch my toes so don't need to kneel to weed or plant!
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
15 years, sounds like your surgeon did a great job. Hopefully the trips to the loo are a smallish price to pay. I don’t actually need to get up in the night very often, but OH is usually up a couple of times. If I wake up too, I’ve got into the habit of popping off to the loo as well.
Sounds like an old dog or a young one. See earlier comment about humans! 😆
She's getting on a bit now but she's been like it since we got her, when she was 3 years old. The only reason I do wake is all these years of training she's put in. She doesn't bark or whine or anything to actually wake me. But when I get to that not quite awake point you do in sleep cycles, where before I would have just dozed back off, now I wake up and go and let the dog out.
Reading out loud is another trigger. Apparently quite a well known one. My Dad used to get me to read out the track lists of records to him (he was blind and loved his music) and I'd rarely get more than 3 or 4 in and I'd need a pee. Mum was the same. We got to know which music shops had readily accessible facilities nearby
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
...pelvic floor exercises done...more of a grimace than a smile...
Gas - I think I posted on this before (unlike me to bang on eh?) under the guise of electric vehicles. We all know there's a transition under way. Renewable energy is on it's way. But the majority of us can't just switch - we don't have the money to just gamble on what will be the technology of the future. So what about supplies of the 'old energy' for the legacy users? The Gov and business seems loathe to exploit new gas fields - but is that sensible? What happens if gas boilers are better converted to hydrogen, rather than installing 'source' pumps? Ditto for cars? What if hydrogen is the (a) way for cars? OK - I know fossil fuels are limited life - but, but, but - doesn't hydrogen give a clean transition? And hydrogen can be (and is) derived from natural gas - so you have an incentive.
Wouldn't a plan be to go fossil-hydrogen-electric? Use the renewable energy in the conversion of natural gas to hydrogen. Is that practical/sensible?
And I just love the market - I hope Quasi GoKarting stands up in parliament and bangs on about the benefits of the market given Russia's (alleged) restriction (edited: not restriction - unwillingness to increase production to cover the current shortage) of gas flow to force through use of their new pipe line. Isn't that just the market? Didn't the UK once use gun boats in China and hook millions of Chinese on heroin in the name of the market? Can someone tell me when 'the market' hasn't been manipulated? The gov is making the market by its actions isn't it?
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My Curmudge? I did a defibrillator course on Monday. It involved kneeling to do the compressions. My stupid arthritic knee did not like it so I limped all Monday pm, slept badly for 2 nights and was in pain all yesterday. Better today thank goodness but grim. Good job I can still touch my toes so don't need to kneel to weed or plant!
I don’t actually need to get up in the night very often, but OH is usually up a couple of times. If I wake up too, I’ve got into the habit of popping off to the loo as well.
Reading out loud is another trigger. Apparently quite a well known one. My Dad used to get me to read out the track lists of records to him (he was blind and loved his music) and I'd rarely get more than 3 or 4 in and I'd need a pee. Mum was the same. We got to know which music shops had readily accessible facilities nearby
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”