Recovery from hemorrhoid surgery in an RV is a bit of a challenge. The bathroom is small by any standard with the toilet and shower in close quarters with each other. Boots recovery required almost total control over those 2 amenities. So, Ruthi tried to time her needs for when Boots’ was sleeping or she would need to utilize the RV park facilities. The current park in Quincy has coin operated showers – so on a matter of principle Ruthi refused to pay for a shower, as we were already paying for the site.
Boots needed SITZ baths to relieve the pain and quicken healing. The RV toilet doesn’t have an automatic drain like house toilets. Flushing is a foot operation since there is no tank on the back for holding water, the flush is a fresh water feed. The SITZ bath requires placing the SITZ bowl into the toilet bowl and allowing for warm water to “flush” by the body and out the back into the toilet bowl. Our couple of tries resulted in water overflowing onto the floor. So, that didn’t work. Boots decided that she couple then just use the shower head and tubing to do a running rinse directly on her body and into the bowl, watching water levels very carefully.
While the shower worked it didn’t have the advantage/healing powers of the soaking process. So, we were back to the drawing board for a solution. Boots remembered that her son had hard lawn chairs with arms. So, Ruthi went over there to borrow a chair to try out. We placed the chair into the shower stall – it fit with some room to maneuver. We placed the SITZ bath on the seat with a surrounding cushion from a child’s inflatable pool/beach air mattress. Then using Karma’s beach washing funnel to fill the SITZ bath holding bag with warm water from the shower head, Boots sat in the shower on the SITZ bath. AH RELIEF!
There more than you ever wanting to know about Boots’ healing process.
