National Projects

Executive Director, Diana Hankey Underwood spoke on July 14, 2008 in Nashville, and at a national medical conference for nurse practitioners.
She also attended the Simon Foundation for Continence "Engineering for Continence" seminar in Chicago. For the first time ever, inventors, physicians, surgeons, incontinent individuals and leaders in advocacy, from Europe and the United States gathered together this year to discuss what new products are being developed and what new products have yet to be invented to meet the needs of people who have loss of bladder or bowel control.

We helped get a prototype of a new product started, and will continue to help industry leaders as they engineer and introduce new products to help make incontinence more bearable.

Using the NIDDK platform, Diana created a bowel and bladder diary that is unique in its ability to offer a private, yet convenient way to record bladder and bowel habits. Leaking gas is often dismissed, but can be very life altering if people begin to limit their social activities. Leaking mucous or feces is common, yet rarely discussed at medical appointments. Men and women suffer from these problems, but men often less than thrilled to receive pink diaries, and women have no diary that asks about bowel, gas, and bladder problems. In order to make these diaries very private, and useful, the pages are arranged in such a way that makes it hard to simply print off the computer, however we are willing to make them available at our cost to those would like to order them.

Please send your requests to: diana@graceanatomy.org

Please see photos for illustrations:

Female Diary:
  

Male Diary:
  

See photos of the convention: Click Here