Heads Up!
Melanie and I are going to be staying in a motel tonight, and we may have to do it again in a few days or a week. I no longer feel safe trying to use our shower; we've got someone coming Friday to take a look at installing a more accessible bath.
So, I'm going to take a one-day vacation from the site. I'll have my laptop with me, but may not turn it on, who knows. Piper will be watching for problems, and we should all be fine.
Play nice.
Hugs,
Erin
Comments
I suppose . . .
“I suppose you’ll be wanting the whole day off?” — Ebenezer Scrooge
Seriously — I hope you both take some time to relax. We’ll have a kegger for sure, but I promise we’ll clean up afterwards. You won’t even notice!
— Emma
So Many Falls
Happen in the shower. I now have a shower chair and grab-rails and I still take extra care. I hope you get it fixed satisfactorily. We can't afford to lose you!
Shower Danger
I'm running through my memory all the showers I have worked on. I am NOT able to pull up any which were "dangerous". Broken fixtures, holes in the walls, cracked floors, some truly nasty, a couple had built in seats, and some had safety bars. In the nursing homes some had emergency call cords, but dangerous?
Hugs Erin, a day off isn't unless you really let work go and relax physically and mentally.
Barb
Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl
Stepping over the tub wall
My wife has reached the point where she can't step over the side of the tub in order to get into the shower; hence unsafe.
I'm having to shell out 15 grand to get a walk-in shower in our manufactured home. The real problem is that most places won't do manufactured homes. None will do them if they aren't on their own property.
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin ein femininer Mann
using bathtub when frail
Hi, Patricia,
15 000 is an absurd amount of money for installing a new shower.
Have you and your wife ever considered something like this?
https://rehashop.de/hilfen-fuer-bad-und-wc/badewannenlifter/...
https://www.sani-fuchs.de/schlafen-und-wohnen/hilfen-fuer-ba...
Much more affordable and can be used even if a person is not able to stand.
Something similar should be available where you live, too.
There are many seat option for the shower
However it more getting in and out. I'm not able to lift her so she would have to balance on one leg (and I'd have to assist) step over and then take her weight on the other leg while lifting the other one in then turn to sit on it. Her arthritic hip would make that impossible.
Yes, you're right 15K is a whole lot more then I want to spend, but right now she's reduced to sitting on the toilet with a wash rag to bath and I have to wash her hair at the kitchen sink.
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin ein femininer Mann
Back
A great bath was had by all, and a decent night's sleep. :)
If we do this again, we'll combine it with a visit to some tourist spot, but the hotel we stayed in, La Quinta was great.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
"La Quinta. Spanish for . . .
. . . 'near Denny's.'" :)
— Emma
LOL
Well, we ate lunch at Denny's, we have an excellent one nearby, but La Quinta means "the quiet one." It's a low-to-midprice chain, and this was a very new one. It was perfect for what we needed, and we left a five-star review. :)
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Couldn't resist!
I don't know if you remember, but "Spanish for" was one of their long-running ad campaigns. You know, "La Quinta -- Spanish for 'clean rooms.'" "La Quinta -- Spanish for, 'high-speed internet.'" The "near Denny's" tag is, in my experience, far more universally accurate than any of the ads they actually ran. For some reason, La Quinta and Denny's go together like burgers and beer. Still, I'm very glad yours was a five-star experience.
— Emma
Oddly
Never saw those ads! But I haven't watched TV regularly since MTV was about the music. :)
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
it's great you found great eats
I'm just wondering here in the States. There seems to be an ongoing debate about tips. I like to tip for good service, but some want an extra $25 added to the bill regardless of the service.
Minimum tip
Tipping has has been a sore point for me since the 70s. I graduated HS in 1963. Acceptable tip then was 10%. I double dated with my best friend on prom night. The four of us went to a 4 star restaurant for dinner. We each had dinner, coffee and a desert. I covered the tip and felt like a big spender because the tip was over a dollar.
Then, in the 70s my dad's cousin got married and I was an usher for the wedding. His bride was a waitress and she was advocating for standard tip to be 15%. Her reasoning was that everyone got raises so why shouldn't the tip be raised as well. I tried to explain to her that as the cost of the meal goes up the dollar amount of the tip went up while the percentage stayed the same. The math was beyond her understanding.
These days, if I get good service, I will tip 15%. If service is merely adequate it's only 10%. For me anything more than 10% has to be earned. If the service was lacking, I've sometimes left no tip; but wrote an explanation on the bill as to why there was no tip.
Olive Garden tacks a $25 gratuity for parties of 4 or more. I've quit going there because of that
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin ein femininer Mann
Spanish for …
Actually in most of continental Latin America quinta is a weekend house (or estate) located on a bigger parcel of land, with gardens and leisure facilities (pool, tennis, grill, etc.), located outside of but still near to urban centers. Until the mid 20th century a quinta was usually owned and used by one family or clan. In recent times and with increased urbanization quintas have generally evolved into retreats or camps with catering facilities and hostel style dormitories or hotel style rooms. Most now pay for themselves with hospitality services.
In a few cases (mainly in Perú) quinta also refers to a gated neighborhood developed by a single real-estate developer. Likely as a result of many such enterprises having started as the conversion of a weekend estate into a suburban development.