often the captor wouldnt be able to sleep , or he would sleep but wake up frequently , presumably with the false notion that he had somewhere important to be , though he seldom left the cabin at all except either to forage for sustenance or to defecate ( fortunately , the man had managed to rid himself of that malodorous diaper upon fleeing his internment , though it seemed to take him a few weeks to reacquaint his body to the habit of being housebroken ) .