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We all met at my wife's aunts place and spent the night and the next morning, we all got into several vehicles and an rv and headed to Kayak Point County Park in Snohomish County for a 4 day camping trip. The night before we left for my wife's aunts place, I was joking with my wife that we had one suitcase just for her tampons, our daughter's night time pull ups and my diapers and she laughed and said....well my tampons only take up a small pocket...
Anyhow, the camping trip was a wonderful time. We rented two spots right beside each other and there were like 10 of us and the fact that I wore diapers under my clothes was mostly a forethought except on the nights we all drank too much and I forgot to put on one of my thicker Abena M4 diapers and I ended up leaking some.
So tips for camping when you deal with incontinence.
1) pack lots of plastic grocery sacks. Any time you go to change, you just put the used diaper in the grocery sack and tie it up. In the case of our camp ground, there was a community restroom with coin operated showers which was nice but they were sometimes quite busy and of course if its late at night, the last thing you want to do is make the trek to the community restroom in the dark...whether you are depositing the diaper tied up in a plastic bag in the community garbage can by the bathroom or in a plastic bag by the tent, the plastic bags make things so much easier.
2) take some thicker...premium diapers if you can. It can mean less instances of changing which means more time for fun and if you go on long hikes like we did, having on a thicker diaper means a more comfortable hike and it makes you feel much more safer because you aint worried about leaking through a thin cheap diaper. Oh and they are life savers if you are all drinking like sailors....
I mentioned Abena Abriform diapers earlier....Abena Abriform are great diapers. They are a bit pricier per a diaper than your average brand but these hold a lot and are pretty comfortable
3) Consider being honest with your campmates. Yes, I totally mean telling everyone that you would pee and or poop your pants if it werent for the fact you have to wear diapers. Initial embarrassment aside, it can help prevent awkward moments later.
4) No matter how much you prepare and plan you will undoubtebly will find your self in a situation where your incontinence rears its ugly inconvenience head or embarrass the shit out of you...no pun intended.
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I had one of those experiences. I had gone to the community restrooms so I would have more room to clean my self up after soiling a diaper. I had just taken off the diaper and rolled it up when a man and his little boy came in the restroom. I could hear the conversation as they were coming in "You are such a big boy for telling me you needed to go potty" let me know if you need any help"
The little boy ended up in the stall next to me. I was in the process of taping a new diaper on when I accidentally knocked the rolled up soiled diaper off the top of the toilet tank and I watched in horror as it rolled on the floor into the next stall. I hear the sound of a small boy gasp and can see his small hands pick up the diaper and hear him say "ewww gross a poopy diaper" and then he does the unthinkable and gets down on the floor and looks under and sees me standing there with my jeans around my ankles and my obvious diapered behind and his eyes get all big and he giggles...gets back on his feet and he gets back down again as I pull up my pants and he goes...where is your mommy? His dad calls out and says...Jaden....who are you talking to...as his son exits the bathroom he goes " daddy....there is a very tall baby in the potty right there and he threw his stinky diaper at me....his dad responded what in Gods name are you talking about Jaden.....They exited the bathroom and I very quickly finished and put my used diaper in a plastic bag and tied it up and left..As I was exiting to throw it in the commercial garbage can, I saw him pointing and saying thats him...He wears diapers..why is he so big and still wearing diapers.....as they were walking away his dad explained that some big people cant make it to the potty and so they have to wear diapers...remember your friend Isaiah at Sunday School and he says....you mean the boy who drools and wears a bib and cant feed himself and doesnt talk and makes funny noises...
I was too far away at this point to here anything else...As crazy as all this sounds something like this happens at least once every few months.....moral of the story....a bathroom stall doesnt automatically grant one privacy...Be careful and change quickly....