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

[rampling.livejournal.com]

Did you have your special shoes on inside the bags?

The footing situation sounds scary! Do you have any sort of treads on the shower floor or shower mat to help you out?

Congrats on surviving the shower, and on finally getting a nice thorough cleaning. I know how nice that can feel!

*clean-hugs*

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Did you fall from the slipperiness?

Yay for being able to get clean!! :-)

[joedecker.livejournal.com]

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

[eeyore-grrl.livejournal.com]

yay for a clean cj! it's amazing how much we forget is wonderful about little things like SHOWERS!

[dieppe.livejournal.com]

Hey to being clean again!

I'm... sure you wouldn't have had a lack of volunteers to help wash your backside though... just sayin'. *cough*

[just-cyd.livejournal.com]

yay for showers!! showers cure a lot of ails. and it sounds like you're recovering well. hooray!!

[simplykimberly.livejournal.com]

I can almost FEEL the joy of the water and a decent shower, just from your description! How wonderful!

I have a shower stool, if you think that would be useful/help? We only use it when grampa is visiting.

[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. :-) )

[jupiter29.livejournal.com]

I think all of my livejournal friends should post every time they take a shower. It would make LJ so much more familiar, you know? :)

Seriously, congrats!