Anyone able to suggest where I can use a disabled shower

[elanfan]

I need to access such a shower in cardiff and I’m really struggling to find one.

I’m a double amputee in a wheelchair and struggling to find something that is accessible and safe. Preferably something my wife can also access to help me. Preferably with a drop down shower seat that I can transfer to.

They won’t let me use the showers on the wards in UHW (H and S don’t you know - except I was doing just that whilst an inpatient).

Shower in Cardiff Gate Services are filthy and impossible to access as they have a plinth around the tray and no shower seat

I’ve used the shower cubicle in Llanishen Leisre centre. Its in the gents so is hard for my wife to join me. I get blasted by freezing water before the hot cuts in, it’s not pleasant

Can anyone suggest where I can go to get clean please?

[x5tuu]

What about a hotel? I would enquire about using an accessible room for a short period of time for this purpose and as the bed etc. wouldn’t be touched the servicing of the room would be minimal before the next over-night guest.

Alternatively I would speak with Age Cymru and they may be able to assist or advise on what facilities are in the area that you could access within (probably) sheltered or warden-based facilities locally.

[Mr Magooagain]

I found this. https://bluebadgestyle.com/2023/04/st-davids/
And this https://www.euansguide.com/reviews/wales/glamorgan...

Edited by Mr Magooagain on Sunday 16th July 20:56

[Jaska]

Do you live in the area? Cardiff council just converted a relatives 'standard' bathroom into a wet room at no cost to them at all as apparently the budget for that work was healthy. Could be worth an ask!

[dunkind]

I know it's not what you are looking for but your quest reminds me of the time I returned home from the spinal unit I was on after becoming paralysed. I'd been on the unit for 11 months and would be wheeled into a wet room and then be showered by nursing staff.
On my return home I had a hospital bed downstairs but the chair lift for the stairs hadn't been fitted so each morning I would transfer to a commode chair, my wife would wheel me out through the French doors, turn on the hose pipe and shower me. I loved it freezing cold water that I could only just about feel because following the paralysis I had altered skin sensation meaning I couldn't feel hot and cold on my skin.
We did this for three weeks, luckily we don't have neighbours.
Now ten years later I can walk and from time to time I stand outside naked on the terrace and my wife hoses me down whilst I soap myself, We both usually end up crying thinking about the stty times.
Good luck with your search.

[Quattromaster]

dunkind said:

I know it's not what you are looking for but your quest reminds me of the time I returned home from the spinal unit I was on after becoming paralysed. I'd been on the unit for 11 months and would be wheeled into a wet room and then be showered by nursing staff.
On my return home I had a hospital bed downstairs but the chair lift for the stairs hadn't been fitted so each morning I would transfer to a commode chair, my wife would wheel me out through the French doors, turn on the hose pipe and shower me. I loved it freezing cold water that I could only just about feel because following the paralysis I had altered skin sensation meaning I couldn't feel hot and cold on my skin.
We did this for three weeks, luckily we don't have neighbours.
Now ten years later I can walk and from time to time I stand outside naked on the terrace and my wife hoses me down whilst I soap myself, We both usually end up crying thinking about the stty times.
Good luck with your search.

Great story, and as a fellow SCI patient, I could have almost written it myself.

[elanfan]

Thanks for the replies so far
I’d need to transfer onto a shower seat as my wheelchair would get soaked.

Hopefully a temporary situation as I’m hoping for a second prosthetic leg. Hopefully will get upstairs to our bathroom.

Anymore would be fantastic

Edited by elanfan on Sunday 16th July 21:48

[InitialDave]

Is your own upstairs bathroom otherwise accessible, aside from getting up the stairs?

Could assistance with getting you up/down the stairs resolve the issue in the short term?

[elanfan]

Until I can use the second prosthetic leg I cannot get upstairs or access the bathroom. That will be some months away yet. Thanks tho