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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.

DryNight is founder-led and early. The right kind of credibility here is simple: why this founder cares, what the public record supports, and what none of those references prove about this device yet.

Founder background can explain operator context. It does not substitute for product validation, pediatric evidence, or regulatory review.

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

DryNight is deliberately not using a long credential stack here. The public references above help a parent, clinician, or investor understand the founder's operating context without turning biography into a substitute for evidence.

More detailed product language, advisor names, and institutional relationships should appear only once they are current, verified, and directly relevant to what the company is ready to say.

Founder writing

Writing that explains the mission before the product.

Beyond Blames is the DryNight companion book. Elvis has also published earlier work on hope, service, and personal agency. The point is not to turn the site into a bookshelf. It is to show that DryNight comes from a longer public voice about dignity, care, and access.

Forthcoming companion book

Beyond Blames

A book about bedwetting, childhood shame, and what families can do differently. It gives the product a human foundation without replacing the evidence DryNight still has to earn.

Publishes May 23, 2026

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Earlier published book

The Obama in You

A 2022 book by Elvis Ndansi on hope, service, mentorship, and personal agency. Public book listings identify the full title as The Obama in You: Using Hope to Power the Giant Within.

Published in 2022

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