Mother of Son with Cerebral Palsy Finds Freedom to Travel and Explore Thanks to Reliable Incontinence Care

Esther shares her story

Beep….Beep….Beep  

The alarms go off, timed throughout the day for medications, checking diapers, and routines. The schedule is tight. Every half an hour means checking something — skin breakdown, pressure spots, seizures, position changes, diapers, and schedule/routie changes. Weeks are full of appointments for specialty doctors and therapists…but that is not what life is about.  

Horseback riding in the Missouri Ozark hills, hiking through the fall leaves in Michigan’s Van Riper State Park, swimming in Lake Superior, watching movies in the theater, eating at local bakeries, tasting frozen custard at the ice cream shop, boat rides, visiting family and good friends, and taking trips to wherever you want to go…this is what life is about and NorthShore made it possible.  

Sixteen years ago, we didn’t know what the future held for our son. As all parents want their kids to do and experience as much as possible, we did too. Having spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, he has many no’s in his life — and that is why we fight for as many yeses as possible. Northshore makes that fight easier.  

We struggled for years to keep our son clean and comfortable. Each venture was shortened and limited to close to home, because of other diapers. They caused skin breakdown, leaked, smelled, and were uncomfortable, let alone not being able to hold much.  After days of searching Reddit threads, Facebook posts, and reviews on several websites I found NorthShore adult diapers, mentioned by people who wear them. I hesitantly ordered our first batch — the price seemed steep. Immediately, his skin cleared up, he didn’t leak no matter what therapies we were doing, odors were no longer an issue, and my son was comfortable for hours during any of his outings. The price no longer seemed steep.  

Currently, thanks to NorthShore, our son looks forward to going on long daily walks, trips to state parks, and future, bigger plans: flying on airplanes, taking long road trips to see mountains and waterfalls, horseback riding in Nevada with his cowboy brother, visiting museums in Washington, D. C. with his sister, and camping with his Aunt, looking for moose in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan…this is what life is all about. 

 

Thank you for reading our customer stories. We try to remove the confusion and isolation surrounding incontinence to guide our audience into our understanding that "Incontinence is very common, often treatable, and regardless, very manageable." - Adam Greenberg, President & Founder of NorthShore NorthShore is grateful for the opportunity to share our customer stories and to provide products that allow users to live life to the fullest. Want to share a story?

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