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re: bathroom --- what about Japanese-style auto-clean, auto-dry toilets?

• verylittlemeat 10y ago
  I took care of someone who had a stroke and even pulling up and pulling down pants to go to the bathroom was nearly impossible. Maybe he was on the more severe end of the stroke spectrum I don't know.
• dpatrick86 10y ago
  There's also cheap retrofit bidets on the market ("Biffy" is one.) The Japanese Toto toilets, however, are great.
• jimmywanger 10y ago
  The way they're set up is not very useful. First, the ones I've used either have a wireless control panel mounted somewhere you have to flip down a little panel to use, or little controls attached to the seat, which require that you turn your body and operate the controls with one hand. Depending on how you're impaired, if the hand you need to control the toilet is not functioning, you're kind of hosed. Second, if you have any mental impairment, are you really going to go through menus with small icons to control the temperature and pressure of a stream of water directed to your nether parts? Finally, the auto-clean/auto-dry toilets still generally require one last wipe to clean up. Think about it this way, if you're baking a cake, and if you smear frosting on your arm, are you just going to rinse your arm with water and call it day, or are you going to rinse it and then wipe the area dry with a towel?
  • dotancohen 10y ago
    > you're kind of hosed. That's the whole idea!
  • dotancohen 10y ago
    > you're kind of hosed. That's the whole idea!