23 September 03
The Joy of Taking a Shower
The hardest part about having an extremity in a cast, splint, or boot is not being able to get really clean. I’ll spare you the gory details of what that translates into but you can probably imagine. Anyway, from sponge baths where I got water all over the floor to sitting in the shower with my left leg in two tightly tied garbage bags, protruding while I perched on a commode in the shower and got even MORE water all over the floor, I have moved on to the ideal solution: take a shower elsewhere.
The PT’s place is a fully functioning gym complete with three showers, one of which, since it’s new, is handicapped accessible. This means I can hop over, grab the rail, hope I don’t slip, sit on the handy seat, wash merrily between my toes, and hop back out again. I think I’m the only person who ever takes a shower in there. At least now I don’t have to go to the hairdresser to get my hair washed, though I must say I miss the chatter of the three Latina hairdressers who, try all they might, never manage to say more than one sentence in English before lapsing into laments about this child or that relative. The handicapped shower in the PT’s place is very silent and unsociable by comparison. But I just BASKED in it this afternoon.
I’ll have to go get my hair trimmed soon to find out the latest on whose quinceaera party is next, is all.
- I’ve just had a trim at my hairdresser who is Greek Cypriate. Today he had his Italian and Thai assistants helping out. His mother’s youngest brother, his mother’s youngest brother’s wife and their grand daughter (his second cousin?) were in having trims also. He has about six uncles and aunts still in Cyprus and the rest are out here, cousins and second cousins and all. We joke about the movie “My Big Fat Greek wedding” which he thought was sooooo true! I love the way they can slip from fluent English into Greek – I would love to be fluent in another language like that. It’s full on entertainment at the hairdressers, I agree! glad you found a good shower!— Jenny 24. September 2003, 22:58 Link
- Sounds like a lovely shower! And what a privilege of having a public shower all to yourself!— Jennifer 25. September 2003, 00:29 Link
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