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The companion book

Beyond Blames.

A book about bedwetting, shame, and the cultures that handle it well. Written by Elvis Ndansi. Publishing on his birthday, May 23, 2026.

Ndansi Elvis Nukam

Beyond
Blames

Bedwetting, childhood shame, and what families can do differently.

Publishes May 23, 2026

The book

Beyond Blames.

Beyond Blames is a book about bedwetting, but really it is a book about shame, childhood, and the quiet ways families pass pain down. It tells the story of different cultures across continents and how each responds when a child wets the bed.

Elvis wrote it as a father, as a former bed-wetter who carried the secret for years, and as a public-health practitioner who believes that public-health problems hide in private moments. The book launches alongside DryNight because the technology and the conversation need each other.

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The book has completed three rounds of editorial review, including an edit in London.

The founder

I wet the bed until I was twelve.

I grew up in Cameroon. My grandparents tried everything: raw okra, anthills, every remedy the village knew. Nothing worked. I stopped going to boarding school so no one would find out. I became the cleanest, most driven student I could be, because I was convinced no one could ever know what I was hiding at night.

Now my nine-year-old son wets the bed every night. His is more severe than mine. I refuse to shame him the way I was shamed. But the best alarms on the market still have cords, still detect moisture after the fact, still fail him.

So I started building what I wish I had. DryNight begins with my son, but the standard is broader: a child should not have to be wet before the system understands that help is needed.

Ndansi Elvis Nukam

Founder & CEO, DryNight

About the founder

Ndansi Elvis Nukam is the Founder and CEO of DryNight. He is Chief of Population Health at Carna Health, a digital health company building at-home kidney diagnostics, and Founder and President of Unite for Health Foundation, a Cameroon-based network of micro-clinics serving rural mothers and children.

He is an Obama Foundation Scholar (inaugural 2018–2019 cohort, Columbia University), a Mandela Washington Fellow (2016, Wagner College), a member of the Forbes Business Council, and a Semafor Principal. He is co-founder of Reymans Mining Corporation, and has previously worked with Attune Media Labs, PBC and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He serves on the Community Advisory Board of the NYU Langone Vaccine Center.

He holds a BSN from the University of Buea in Cameroon, an MSN in Nursing Education, and an MPH in Infectious Disease from Euclid University. He completed a Health Informatics program at Columbia University and is currently pursuing an Executive MBA at Harvard University and a Doctor of Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a registered nurse in the State of New York.

The companion book

Beyond Blames

A book about bedwetting, childhood shame, and what families can do differently.

Publishes May 23, 2026

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