Showers

[cjsmith]

I finally tried the plastic bag thing in the shower. Two bags on each foot, each layer taped to my calf.

A little-known fact of physics: slippery footing gets worse by a factor of at least three when you have your eyes closed and soap all over your face.

But I'm clean! I'm clean! Ahhhhhhh! I could rinse my hair with BOTH hands. I could get my legs wet. I could wash my backside. I could stand in the spray and rinse myself in seconds. Every detail was a new joy -- I was having multiple mental orgasms over how wonderful it was to be clean.

I can't wait to be able to wash my feet. I might just pass out with bliss.

Comments

[sunnydale47.livejournal.com]

Yay! Every time I've been unable to take a shower for awhile (surgery, whatever), when I'm finally able to take one again I always think that a shower is the most underrated pleasure in the world and I'll never take them for granted again ... but of course I do. Sponge baths probably keep one sanitary enough, but I don't feel clean with sponge baths.

I don't even feel clean with a real bath. I haven't taken a bath in many years -- I can't get up once I'm lying in the tub, so I don't dare get into a regular-size bathtub. But when I did take baths, I didn't feel clean after soaking in water filled with the stuff that soaked off ... the dead skin cells and other icky old debris. So after a pleasant soak I'd let the water out and take a quick shower! (Besides, I've never been able to wash my hair in a bath ... I have to have a shower for that, so if I'm going to run the shower I might as well wash in it, too. :-) )

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I feel the same way about showers after backpacking trips. It's soooooo nice to be clean. Just like you, I then start to take them for granted again after a while! :-)

I haven't had a bath since childhood, I think, unless you count the sort of "part way clean" feeling that comes after soaking in a hot tub or swimming in a stream.