- Washable absorbant mattress pads. Another excellent one to have, even if you don't have issues with incontinence, they saved my mattress from the natural leaking and oozing from the incisions. I would simply stain-stick the sheets and the pads saved my very expensive mattress.

Can you recall whether you had more issues with incisions rather than the incontinence, and if it was more with incisions which pads did you purchase? Also, I am not sure what you mean when you say "you would simply stain-stick the sheets"

The reason I ask is I had this issue before with a prior abdominal surgery and did not think to allow for the possibility of incisional leaks and found out the hard way. So, I would like to avoid that again at all costs.