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Empowering reason woman photographed her pee-covered pants


The first time Emma Carey wet her pants, she was incredibly embarrassed, refusing to leave the house in fears people would find out.

The 25-year-old is known as ‘the girl who fell from the sky’ after a horrific skydiving accident in 2013 left her paralysed from a severe spinal cord injury.

After years of surgery and physiotherapy, Emma has made a miraculous recovery and despite the odds, is able to walk again – something she’s been blogging about in the years since her accident.

Source: Instagram/em_carey
Source: Instagram/em_carey

However, Emma still lives with a number of lasting effects from her injury, one of which is being, “completely incontinent with both my bladder and bowels.”

Having overcome the shame she used to feel about it, Emma recently shared a photo of her daily experience living with incontinence to her Instagram page, where she’s being widely praised.

“My bladder can only hold 100mL before it leaks. That’s less than half a cup of liquid, so as you can probably imagine this means I am peeing myself literally non-stop.”

I’ve seen this photo floating around the internet lately so thought I’d take a moment to chat about my pee covered pants. This is what I look like every. single. day. Multiple times a day. I think because I can walk, people tend to think I have completely recovered from my spinal cord injury but the truth is I still have many lasting effects, one of them being that I am completely incontinent with both my bladder and bowels. At first I was so embarrassed by this and tried to keep it a secret. I didn’t leave the house because I was so worried that people would find out. I wouldn’t tell anyone why I had to be near a toilet at all times. I wouldn’t let anyone see my catheters or pads. I would run away and hide every time I had an accident. It was exhausting trying to keep it a secret, so instead I just didn’t let anyone close to me. It wasn’t long until I realised that if I was going to get upset and angry every time I peed myself, it would mean that I would be upset and angry every single day of my life. For the rest of my life. And that’s when it hit me.. I survived a bloody skydiving accident. I don’t know how or why but I know that it certainly wasn’t to live a depressing life. I owed myself way more than that. Now it’s five years later and I don’t think I have a single friend that hasn’t seen me pee. I tell people about my incontinence generally within 10 minutes of meeting them. And now I’m posting a picture of my pee covered pants to over 100,000 people without a second thought. The point of this isn’t for sympathy or for praise, it’s to show you that it is completely and entirely possible to not give a single sh*t about the things that people expect you to care about. Just because we have grown up to believe that certain things are taboo or shouldn’t be spoken about, doesn’t mean that they are. Just because people think you should feel embarrassed about something, doesn’t mean you need to. Just because people might judge you on a certain thing, doesn’t mean you need to care. How you feel about certain situations is entirely up to you. If you own your life and all your ‘flaws’, they will never be able to own you. It’s the most freeing thing in the world.

A post shared by EMMA CAREY (@em_carey) on May 31, 2018 at 3:49am PDT

She went on to spread an empowering message to help others overcome their ‘flaws’ by encouraging them to stop worrying about what people think of them.

“Just because we have grown up to believe that certain things are taboo or shouldn’t be spoken about, doesn’t mean that they are. Just because people think you should feel embarrassed about something, doesn’t mean you need to. Just because people might judge you on a certain thing, doesn’t mean you need to care,” She prompted.

Since the accident, Emma has become a beacon of hope, passionate about raising awareness about the effects of spinal cord injuries and other disabilities along with helping others cope with them.

You can read more of Emma’s story and recovery here.


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