What part of the body can't you reach with arthur ?

lupin15
lupin15 Member Posts: 2,182
edited 2. Oct 2010, 16:39 in Community Chit-chat archive
While in the bath this morning i was thinking about how difficult it was to see the bottom of my feet. I use to be so supple and then it got me wondering how it effects other people. Shaving my legs is also a right bugger as well...turning to get to the backs. Sometimes loose my balance to the entertainment of ,my 20 year old daughter (trying to shave my legs) I don't mind our house is filled with laugher and i think it is the best root to take.
So come on any funny stories or difficult places??????

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  • coco67
    coco67 Member Posts: 2,374
    edited 1. Oct 2010, 03:53
    when my neck is really bad i have to get my daughter to help me wash me hair,it always ends in a drowning lol, god knows what the neighbours think at all the squealling and laffin. we both end up looking like drowned rats lol
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Feet. I can't reach them as my knees do not bend sufficiently. Another added expense to life, thanks to arthritis, is regular visits to a chiropodist. I loathe going, I hate having my feet fiddled with. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • julie47
    julie47 Member Posts: 6,041
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Feet and head. Legs are a menace to shave i agree. Normally OH gets the bits I have missed. OH washes my hair . I have to use a long handled brush to brush it.

    JuliePF x
  • snowball
    snowball Member Posts: 3,465
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Both my arms siezed up and could not move them, I needed to get my bra off and there was only my youngest son in, he was 16 at the time. As you can imagine it was a right palarvour :roll: Poor lad still might need counciling after all this time :lol:

    Jules x
    ((((hugs)))) n xxxxx to ya all
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 29,775
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    snowball wrote:
    Both my arms siezed up and could not move them, I needed to get my bra off and there was only my youngest son in, he was 16 at the time. As you can imagine it was a right palarvour :roll: Poor lad still might need counciling after all this time :lol:

    Jules x

    This could take YEARS of intense therapy to undo you know :shock:

    :lol:

    All of me at times and luckily i have girls - bad though isnt it 'suing' them like that :oops:
  • valval
    valval Member Posts: 14,911
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    feet for me better now meds working but cutting toe nails was awfull . getting in and out of bath no fun when shoulders are playing up
    val
  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,395
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I think it would be quicker for me to tell you the parts I CAN reach :shock: :roll:

    Luv Legs :D
    Love, Legs x
    'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'
  • barbara12
    barbara12 Member Posts: 21,281
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Feet again...I dread the day I have to have someone do my toenails :shock: and its not far off
    Barbarax
    Love
    Barbara
  • annie_mial
    annie_mial Member Posts: 5,614
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Feet - can't remember the last time I could get to them comfortably!

    Annie
  • only49
    only49 Member Posts: 1,207
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    my toes is a difficult one, putting my slippers on, my socks, my pants, and sometimes my trousers
    sylvia :)stern02.gif
  • tkachev
    tkachev Member Posts: 8,332
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Feet for me too. And I dread ever being arrested! There is no way I could get my arms behind my back....agony...or lay on the floor during a bank robbery! Id be shot.

    Elizabeth
    Never be bullied into silence.
    Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
    Accept no ones definition of your life

    Define yourself........

    Harvey Fierstein
  • dachshund
    dachshund Member Posts: 9,083
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    it's my feet as well i can see them but i cannot reach them or my toe's it's so maddening to have a sore toe and not be able to see it.
    i have to have some one to cut my nails as well.
    joan xx
    take care
    joan xx
  • skezier
    skezier Member Posts: 11,333
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Lupin,

    Oh so many bits now a days... feet are always a problem. I had a cockerel spur in the leg and couldn't even manage to change the dressing... shoe laces, neck, one shoulder, ll kinds of things.... Cris x

    hey Elizabeth I am so with you.... they would have to tazar me! xx
  • robertls
    robertls Member Posts: 2,304
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Sometimes, I can't reach my 'possible'

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  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Is that because it's im-possible? DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • tkachev
    tkachev Member Posts: 8,332
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    babycham wrote:
    tkachev wrote:
    Feet for me too. And I dread ever being arrested! There is no way I could get my arms behind my back....agony...or lay on the floor during a bank robbery! Id be shot.

    Elizabeth
    Oh i.m sorry Elizabeth but I Just had to laugh i.am always thinking about what if situations.....how would we cope??xx B/Cham :lol::lol::lol::lol:

    we would be standing there going i have arthritis i cant get on the floor....honest.....

    e x
    Never be bullied into silence.
    Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
    Accept no ones definition of your life

    Define yourself........

    Harvey Fierstein
  • lupin15
    lupin15 Member Posts: 2,182
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    My hubby has discos legs(that is what the children call them). We give him the trolley when we go shopping to hold him up. Also putting his pants on is an art. He stands with one hand on the chest of draws to balance and brings his other leg across his straight leg...a bit like a ballet dancer .....actually not the figure of one but if i really squint and the light is bad :):):):)
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    First giggle of the day - thanks lupin! On the days I bother with pants I sit down to begin the process, that stops all the balancing and tottering malarkey in its tracks. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • trisher
    trisher Member Posts: 9,263
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Well lying on the floor during a bank rais well I would be shot with you so you are not alone. :shock: A

    Arthur has gone eveywhere so there is no hope for me. I have trouble tryig to open a bag of crisps or anything else in a bag.

    Bra.....hubby does it .

    I cannot clean my ears out because of my hands and fingers. :shock:

    Neck is bad too I cannot turn turn round to look at someone.

    Elbows they are semi bent. Wrists they are going their own way.

    Legs.....well they might be alright in some elses's body so might the rest of my legs but then on the other hand they might be pickled and in a jar :shock:

    Trish xxx
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Wow, baby the philsopher. Wise words, hun, and very true. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • tkachev
    tkachev Member Posts: 8,332
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    trisher wrote:
    Well lying on the floor during a bank rais well I would be shot with you so you are not alone. :shock: A

    Arthur has gone eveywhere so there is no hope for me. I have trouble tryig to open a bag of crisps or anything else in a bag.

    Bra.....hubby does it .

    I cannot clean my ears out because of my hands and fingers. :shock:

    Neck is bad too I cannot turn turn round to look at someone.

    Elbows they are semi bent. Wrists they are going their own way.

    Legs.....well they might be alright in some elses's body so might the rest of my legs but then on the other hand they might be pickled and in a jar :shock:

    Trish xxx

    Oh Trish. Your heart is lovely though and your brain works magnificently.....
    Elizabeth
    Never be bullied into silence.
    Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
    Accept no ones definition of your life

    Define yourself........

    Harvey Fierstein
  • joyful164
    joyful164 Member Posts: 2,401
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    valval wrote:
    feet for me better now meds working but cutting toe nails was awfull . getting in and out of bath no fun when shoulders are playing up

    Same here. Getting in and out of bath is hurrendous. I've got a knack though, but now that I have lost a stone in weight, I can now reach my toenails, heaven.

    Just 3 more stone to go.

    Creaming my back is a prob. I have a method whereby I put a load of tissues on a wooden spoon and can reach my back that way. Otherwise I have to ask hubby

    Joy
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