Well Aunt Bev is home had to fight her to get her out of the hot tub when it started raining, she so funny
has any one had any shakes in just one arm seems every time Aunt
Bev comes home from the hospital her right arm starts shaking like as if she has Parkins .
hope every one has smiled at least once today
I'm pleased Aunt Bev is home (I'm a Bev as well).
I smiled when I read your post, thinking back. A couple of my friends had hot tubs in their gardens and my husband and I joined them on several occasions, sipping wine under the stars or soaking up the sun, and the bubbles. On my 50th birthday we decided that for my 60th birthday we would convert our garage into a hot tub room, ready for our retirement; drinking champagne, relaxing in luxurious bubbles, ah bliss!
What did I get for my 60 th birthday....yes, a garage conversion, but not a hot tub, a wet room instead. Not quite the same but far more practical for the situation we are in now. I suppose we could still sip champagne in there, me sitting on the toilet seat, C in his shower seat/commode. Not quite the same though. Unfortunately one of my hot tub friends has moved from that house and left it there and the other one doesn't use hers now. I'm still smiling though.
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hi nanna b at least you are still smiling nanna mate and you can drink champers wherever you are cant you or
does it taste different in different surrounding s I cant stand the stuff myself the bubbles go right up your nose;;;;;; I THINK ITS A BIT OVERATED AND EXPENSIVE
regards to colin matey tell him to hang in there matey and stay off of the PLONK HE WILL BE PLAYING A UKE YET
peter jones queensland Australia psp sufferer
What is a WET ROOM is it a bathroom that is created for disabled?
Yes, it is a room with a shower but no shower tray so there are no steps to get over. The floor slopes slightly away from the door so water runs into a drain. It enables the user to be showered sitting in suitable wheelchair if unable to stand and carers don't have to struggle with a little cubicle. We have a reclining shower chair which gives easy access to underneath parts. The toilet is in the same room so the commode chair can be wheeled over it. After some of the carers have showered my husband it is a VERY wet room but most manage to keep the water up the shower end. As the floor is sealed it can all be mopped easily. Without the wet room my husband wouldn't be able to shower every day and he would hate that.
Ok I see.Thank you for the description. My poor husband has a regular tub which he must step over to get in and out . I put all sorts of hand rails which gives him the confidence to stand and shower. I don't know what we will do when he cannot maneuver the tub. but for now I am by his side outside the tub. I usually clean the bathroom while he showers until he needs me. That's sort of a blessing because the bathroom around the pot needs weekly cleaning daily...... he often misses need I say more.
I do wonder what a shower tray is ....never heard of it.....is it the floor itself? one q after another not much fun being my dr. eh.....?
Always asking questions hahaha
AVB
My hubby managed in a bath/ tub for a couple of years after diagnosis but the day came when he fell. It took over an hour to get him out. I wanted to call the ambulance but he begged me not to. Eventually, after giving him a deadline, he had a surge of energy and managed to help me get him up.
By shower tray I mean the base of an ordinary shower. Fixed to the floor, you still have a little step to go over but eventually even that little step is too high. When I first joined this group someone suggested getting things in place before you need them. The day he fell in the bath the builders were putting the finishing touches to the wet room. There were only 3 days that he had to go without a shower. I would advise everyone to do the same and not leave things until the time comes.
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Wow indeed, iwish we could do that. I have one bathroom. It is B's and ultimately my nemesis! The first piece of furnishing I noticed succoming to B's falls was the shower curtain rod. He bent that steel piece of metal just enough to notice a slight V....then I started noticing corners of walls, dining chairs, and finally walls and toilets fully body slammed rendering them useless. Now I walk WHEREVER B walks and the bathtub has grab bars. I stand and wait for him during his showers... and believe me, I know what it is like trying to get a wet, two hundred pound (he's lost wt) naked body off of a slippery tub floor. We are not so worried about showers more than once a week...He doesn't do much to promote sweat and we have wet wipes for personal issues....But I am envious of your wet room I know that some day we will need something like that.
AVB
Our wet room was in use at 3 am this morning. As well as PSP, C has ulcerative colitis. This means he has very loose bowel movements 4/5 times a day and he has no control. We had a night nurse last night and she had to shower him and change clothes and bedding at 3 and again at 5 am when she got him dressed. I showered him twice yesterday. He wore four pairs of trousers. How I wish we could manage with wipes.
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i am so sorry i know how hard it is to clean someone up by yourself it is not an easy chore. I finally made an out side shower on the back porch hooked hose up to hot and cold to the washmachine and away we go Aunt Bev just loves it I have plastic tarps strung around her so she has privacy and it stays warm till i dry her off I know the normal person would not even think of such a thing but then again were both a little off LOL
HI MATE ITS GOOD TO HAVE AUNTY BEV BACK HOME AGAIN THATS GREAT AND IT SEEMS LIKE SHE LOVES THE HOT TUB MATEY IM AFRAID I CANT HELP YOU WITH THE SHAKING OF THE ARM MINE HAS SLIGHT TREMORS BUT STOPS AFTER A FEW MINUTES UNLESS SHE WAS SO HAPPY TO COME HOME THAT SHE SHOOK EVERYBODYS HAND THAT WAS THERE' AND HERS IS STILL GOING
SHE SOUNDS A VERY HAPPY GO LUCKY PERSON MATE AND YOU ARE LUCKY TO HAVE HER AND SHE IS LUCKY TO HAVE YOU SO TAKE CARE OF HER NO DOUBT WE WILL CATCH UP AGAIN LATER ON SO UNTIL THEN SEE YER MATE TAKE CARE AUNTY BEV PETER JONES QUEENSLAND AUSTRALIA PSP SUFFERER
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