It's shower time!! or "Struggle time" :P

Goodness!! it was an extremely uphill task to bring Ma ma to the shower with a cast on her right leg. At 53 kg, she is heavier than Noime and me and we both struggled to transfer her from the wheelchair to the toilet.

We didn't succeed as the wheelchair is too big to be pushed inside the toilet ( hopefully newer flats would have toilets with wider doors! - An important consideration given the ageing population).

The other reason was Mama - she simply refused to let us help her get off from the wheelchair. She had wanted to do the transfer on her own instead. She was more worried for our safety, fearing that she would land on us if we fail to support her as we appear to be too frail to support her.

In such moment of desperation, an idea struck me! - why not use the commode, which is less bulky than the wheelchair , to do the transfer? So, we transferred her onto the commode and managed to push her into the toilet. Yeah!! we succeeded! but not without suffering from some backache due to the initial tries......