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[Unbreakable]

Wondering how often us paralyzed folks bathe. I know for me, it can sometimes be a PITA to haul my carcass into the shower, wondering if anyone else felt the same way. I don't think I bathe as regularly as I used to, but I don't get nearly as dirty as I used to, either.

Edited by Unbreakable, 27 October 2008 - 04:14 AM.

[Ches]

Same here UB.. For once I understand you..

I shower like 5 times a week.. more if needed. Less if I'm feeling sick.

[Trinity]

I shower everyday, without fail.

[irish]

every third day, after my bowel program

[JesseB]

I like to do my shower every-other day. >:]

[Nichole]

I dont bathe....haha, totally kidding. I shower everyday, unless im sick or something.

[ems]

HOT Bath bath bath, bubbles, cookies, and candles!

I can't use our shower, and would proabably choose the bath over the shower anyway.

[JT80]

everyday, unless no shower option available.
spent 10 days in hospital and didn't shower once - the bathrooms/shower trolley is totally disgusting and i don't want MRSA, so decided to not shower through choice.

[REASON2BLIEVE]

my hubby showers everyday, sometimes twice a day if he is feeling really tight and his leg spasms are bad. The water seems to help.

[kDd]

trinity, on Oct 27 2008, 10:50 AM, said:

I shower everyday, without fail.

I know, Trinity, I know...

[nomis]

For me, I start every day with a shower. Helps me wake up, too. The routine is so established it'd feel weird if I missed it.

[Tash]

My man does not get to shower or bathe. I can not get him inthe tub or the shower alone and the Home Health Aid can not do it either.

So Every Mon - Wed - Fri he takes a really good bed bath. Sat and Sun I give his The Top Of The Line Bed Wipe Down...(If you know hat I mean..he,he) All that of course if he is not feeling bad.. Most of the time he is feeling bad..

However he still gets his Mon . Wed. ansd Fri treament.

[kdenon01]

My husband only takes one or two showers a week. The rest of the time he does bed baths. It's just so much work for me and him. The transfers to and from the shower chair are so difficult, and he's freezing ALL day after he gets out of the shower.

[graphic]

Bath every and morning without fail and try to take another in the evening when I can. I don't need two baths a day but I find that soaking in hot water is the only way I can alleviate my nerve pain for a while.

[wheeliebear75]

I bath every other day myself.
(But with the exception of a certain week of the month......then I do it every day unless I can't get out of bed)

For the same reason as Unbreakable said........it's a real project to get in and out of the shower. + I don't know about anyone else. But for me often after I get out of the shower if there is even a small draft in the bathroom it sends my back and leg muscles into really nasty/painful spasms. So I also end up consequently needing big thick beach towels & more often than not have to use 2, which can sometimes make it a bit harder to get situated.

I totally feel decades older than my chronological age.

[Hawkeye]

I shower every morning, before leaving for work.

I like to sleep in on the weekends, so that early morning (4:15 am)shower sometimes becomes a noon shower.

Joe

[newwife08]

My husband has a caregiver that comes every morning (and has for the past 8 or 9 years, unless on vacation) to shower him and get him dressed. He uses a Hoyer lift with a sling to get him in and out. He transfers from the bed to his chair (that his carer has already put the sling on), then he rolls into the bathroom and she hooks him up to the lift and swings him into and then lowers him down into the tub. They have done it for so long, his whole morning routine takes about 40 minutes from start to finish. He says that while the sling isn't comfortable, he doesn't feel secure enough to transfer to a shower chair. The only time he doesn't shower is when we go on vacation or when he was in the hospital.

[Scribbler]

What's a shower?....... What's a bath?.......


My PA gives me a hose down in the back yard... Its just like being in Kentucky with Evil.....

[RoyC]

I always have a nice long soak in a bath full of bubbles hate showers as they set my spasm off something terrible and throws me all over the place only shower when on holiday and there is no accessable bath tub but i have always prefered a long soak in the bath over a shower

[qbounce]

Yup, once a day at night. Next morning I just wet my hair in the sink to get rid of the bed-head hairdo. But I don't feel clean without a good shower. I use a wheel-in commode chair, btw.

[E-DOG]

People quit comin' over to visit so I quit bathin'.
Or did I quit bathin' and people quit comin' over to visit?

Dang, I can't remember now.
Sure does stink around here though. Wonder what's causing that.

Actually every other day, to remove the fetid stench of despair created by my dwindling bank account.

[CR_L1]

For me, every night before bed I take a HOT shower & every morning a quick wipe of face, pits & nads.

[BenjaminLucas]

Every other day seems to work for me very well.

[wheelywendy]

my pa usually helps me shower every morning when i get up and then again most every evenings before i go to bed, we find it easier than washing and i just get so hot even in the winter. the worst thing i ever did though was let them take my bath out and make it a wet room, oh boy do i miss those muscle relaxing soaks.

[ClaraTaylor]

I am waiting for my shiny new shower to be installed (some time this year now I have saved up the money!) and the bath is... well it's not my friend.

So unless I'm at my partners house (i.e. four times a month) I don't shower.
I don't bathe.

I wash myself in the kitchen sink and have been doing for a few years now. (And gosh do the coffee mugs get in awkward places!)

[allister]

Currently don't bathe at home
Moved house dec 2008 to bath with shoer over. Can't get in it. Hate the house, the area, so trying to move again. see no point in spending tochange bathroom toshower room then leave.
Partner strip washes me daily, once / twice a week drive to my parents and use their wet room.

Don't smell - - - honest !

[Meadowlarkmark]

Every day unless I have a major melt down of one sort or another--If I don't I get pretty rank and as long as I am employed by the State I'm under the water daily. I only shower, wish I could do a bath but right now bathing is not an option.

[mcferguson]

I shower about 3 times a week at the gym. My shower at home is upstairs and I don't have any way to get up there yet. Before I joined the gym, I was wiping myself down every day with a washcloth after my bowel routine. I felt like a king when I got to take my first shower. I think I stayed in there for like 30 minutes.

[topperf]

What a terrible smelling thread - has someone been on fire in here? Phew...

[alwyen]

wheeliebear75, on 23 February 2009 - 07:26 AM, said:

I bath every other day myself.
(But with the exception of a certain week of the month......then I do it every day unless I can't get out of bed)

For the same reason as Unbreakable said........it's a real project to get in and out of the shower. + I don't know about anyone else. But for me often after I get out of the shower if there is even a small draft in the bathroom it sends my back and leg muscles into really nasty/painful spasms. So I also end up consequently needing big thick beach towels & more often than not have to use 2, which can sometimes make it a bit harder to get situated.

I totally feel decades older than my chronological age.

i know that feeling wheeliebear when it comes to a certain week, i try and shower everyday with exception of that week then its every three days if i can get out of bed bet most of that week i can hardly sit up and i do have trouble with my shower chair at the moment and i need to get a new one as the wheels are giving up on it.