We got to try out Mom's new bathtub chair today and it worked great! :-)
She's had another one through home health care for sometime now. It sat
completely in the tub and I or a lady from home health care or the both
of us would have to help Mom as she got in the bathtub and sat down.
With that chair she had to lift her legs one at a time over the side of
the tub. That scared her after she got sick for awhile & weak and was
afraid she would fall.
Then the other day I looked out on the front porch and there was a new
bath chair! (ha) I knew where it had come from;but didn't know it was
coming. Didn't even know anyone made the kind where two of the legs sit
in the bathtub and two legs set out on the floor.
So this evening I got up from my nap and found Mom had had an accident
in her Depends and she was in the bathroom trying to clean herself up
with toilet paper. Saw that wasn't going to do the job as she had had a
fairly loose bowel movement. Mom asked for a wet washcloth and I got her
that;but before I gave it to her I said; would be easier for you to
clean up if you just sat down on that chair-the bathtub chair. :-) Got
her to do that and suggested she put her legs over in the tub. LoL She
said,no she couldn't! I said,oh it won't be that hard-just one at a
time. So I helped her get her legs over in the tub and then gave her the
wet wash cloth. Put the stopper in,turned on the water and said, maybe
this will help? :-) She got the soap, I got the water going on her and
pretty soon she was getting a good and needed bath! LoL Got her hair wet
before she knew it too. :-) And then some baby shampoo on and her hair
washed as well. And as usual,after all was said and done, she said she
felt a lot better! :-) LoL
And I say thank you to who ever first came up with the idea of making a
bathtub chair where two of the legs and part of the chair seat went
outside of the tub-where a person could sit down before they had to get
their legs in the tub! :-)
J - 21 Mar 2005 18:04 GMT
Ronny do you have to be so graphic?? Its even grossing me out, and I'm
known as the Turd Burglar (a long story, don't ask!)