Ever wanted access to all those toilets?

Ever wanted access to all those toilets?

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samuelellis

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200 months

Saturday 13th October 2012
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BlackVanDyke said:
RADAR are the Royal Association.. something... Disability and Rehabilitation.

But the thing is, you can't see from across a pub who's got MS and only marginal control over their bowel (and yes, might still be able to walk pretty well), or who's got a colostomy bag and needs a bit of space and a sink they can reach from the loo to sort it out properly. More so if it's leaked. Which they do.

I have a permanent (supra-pubic; a surgically inserted one through my abdominal wall) catheter which drains into a bag strapped to my leg. As it's strapped to my leg, which I can't really move, I don't always realise when it's getting full until my bladder is also full. My bladder doesn't really work as a bladder any more. Which is to say, once I realise I need to empty the bag, it's an absolute maximum of 2 or 3 minutes until it's too late. Same is true of loads of people and not all of them have the handy wheelchair to identify them as worthy users of a disabled toilet.

Please for fk's sake don't further reduce my chances of getting to the loo on time, that particular problem is enough of a bh to live with as it is.
Sorry just to go off topic for a second and this might sound really discusting but cant you get some sort of expanding band that goes round the bag so once it expands to a certain point it triggers something to let you know (IE a led on your wrist strap, vibrate alert someware you can feel it)

Thinking about it its something that might be easily rig-uppable if nothing like that exists