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  • #604369
    choppy
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    Anyone here with experience of a shower fall due to a slippery soap?

    #894305
    pcoz
    Member

    that is chashuv

    #894306
    SayIDidIt™
    Participant

    CAUTION: Floor wet when slippery!

    on a more serious note:

    get a shower mat!

    SiDi™

    #894307
    ConcernedMember
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    If you’re a senior citizen there are organizations out there that can help you. For example, some people install a rail to hold on to while in the shower. Of course, the aforementioned mat is a simpler option. But there are chesed orgs out there that will help you get a rail, often at zero cost.

    #894308
    oomis
    Participant

    A slippery soap is a slippery slope. Get those decals that go on the shower floor, to give traction, or wear shower shoes. Best yet, get a safety rail installed on both sides of the shower.

    #894309
    ohr chodesh
    Member

    I remember an old humorous ad with some guy all bandaged and in a cast after slipping in the shower.

    #894310
    pcoz
    Member

    or you could wear climbing boots in the shower

    #894311

    Falling in the shower / bathtub can be really dangerous. Here’s one instance:

    My wife’s father slipped in the bath while showering, fell on his head, landed up unconscious in the bathtub and was niftar. Her brother found him there the next day (probably – it could even have been a day earlier… he lived alone).

    He also had diabetes (type 1), so it could be that he was unconscious but living and the diabetes led to the end.

    I never met him – it happened a few weeks before the first date.

    #894312
    yitayningwut
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    I don’t think it’s a good idea.

    #894313
    mewho
    Participant

    many accidents happen at home. a woman i know was standing on a small step ladder to change a bulb and fell backward. she broke her knee in multiple places. couldnt walk for almost a year.

    anytime that there is water involved one should be extra careful. it does become very slippery when one showers and extra care should be taken to thoroughly wipe the soles of the feet.

    #894314

    That’s why i NEVER take showers

    #894315
    farrockgrandma
    Participant

    This name – I think we’ve met. Wasn’t that you standing near me on the subway yesterday?

    #894316
    haifagirl
    Participant

    You can also get a chair or bench designed for showers.

    #894317
    gaslight
    Member

    Once I fell and whacked my head so hard on the shower wall I got a concussion. They said in the ER that the reason why the other side of my head also hurt is because my brain bounced off my skull. Ow.

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