Reggie just turned 15 in February and has been dealing with kidney disease (failure) for over a year now. Besides weight loss he's really been fine and recently has gained some weight back. However the past few months he's starting doing something new.
While he's sleeping, because his bladder is so full he will 'leak' urine out. It can be just a few drops or if he sleeps in one spot for a while it can be quite a bit. As this has been happening we've been keeping up with washing anything that he leaks on, blankets on chairs or whatever. But the one thing that's getting bad is on our bed during the night.
He's always slept with us at night and usually will sleep in one spot for most of the night. Recently now he's been leaking so much it's really causing problems - soaking the comforter so we put on different top sheets, now he's leaked through those. It's getting to be a very difficult thing to continually wash and keep clean the bed stuff.
Has anyone dealt with this? The easiest solution is shutting the doors at night but he's going on 15 years of sleeping on the bed and I feel pretty awful shutting him out now in his final years. Has anyone used any kind of different sheet protectors or anything? Before we shut the doors I just want to explore my options.
While he's sleeping, because his bladder is so full he will 'leak' urine out. It can be just a few drops or if he sleeps in one spot for a while it can be quite a bit. As this has been happening we've been keeping up with washing anything that he leaks on, blankets on chairs or whatever. But the one thing that's getting bad is on our bed during the night.
He's always slept with us at night and usually will sleep in one spot for most of the night. Recently now he's been leaking so much it's really causing problems - soaking the comforter so we put on different top sheets, now he's leaked through those. It's getting to be a very difficult thing to continually wash and keep clean the bed stuff.
Has anyone dealt with this? The easiest solution is shutting the doors at night but he's going on 15 years of sleeping on the bed and I feel pretty awful shutting him out now in his final years. Has anyone used any kind of different sheet protectors or anything? Before we shut the doors I just want to explore my options.
