For the elderly and the disabled, the most dangerous room in the house is our bathrooms. When you have deficient parts on your body, and everything is wet and slippery around you spells Danger!

I have experience with these danger areas in my bathroom. We have a shower stall with marble walls. It has a stall with a lifted door for the shower so you have to step over to get in it. Inside the shower, we installed two rods that are attached by suction cups to the wall. It works great, but the problem is sometimes the suction cups stop sticking to the wall. I didn’t find out until I grabbed them to keep from falling and they came off with me along with it. This is very scary.

Then I am on the bottom of the shower with no easy way to get up. I then had to crawl over the door to get out of the shower with my bad knees. The additional problem is when I call for help with my phone is to decide whom to call since I am presently nude. I phoned my son who said,” Mom can’t you call your sister? I guess he wasn’t eager to see his naked mother.

One time I fell down in the bathroom and I was able to use my bathtub to hoist myself up. It is still difficult to crawl on the floor because of my bad knees. Pure determination enabled me to finally get up off of the floor by myself.