A few years ago even though I still have some difficulties in my walking I would still bath as frequently as I can. I would even get up in the middle of the night or in the wee hours of the morning just before I sleep again so that I could get more comfortable. In those times I am also anemic and insomniac which explains my irregular behavioral patterns like eating and even showering in unusual time patters.
But it is really uncomfortable here in our house, it is hot because there is not much air circulation going on. In fact I just have to turn on my electric fan facing the window just to help flush some bad and warm air out. So if I would sweat before it does leave a sticky feel to the skin because of the nature of weather here in my country where it is always hot and humid all the time.
Now our house had gotten much hotter especially when the husband of my sister installed a roof beside our house effectively blocking any air now going from that part of the house. My father also insists of closing the door of their room which also prevented air from going inside the house. So it is just my plan if I would get the opportunity to renovate this house to make it more conducive for a comfortable living space especially for my condition now.
That explains why I had gotten fond of bathing even when I was still young and we get our water from the artesian well that is situated at the back of the house in which I have to fetch several buckets of water so that I could bathe in a relatively cold water in hot days and warmer in cold days if the water comes form that artesian well.
But after I have been a dialysis patient and not getting good treatment, I would always feel unwell. The only thing that I could do is to take a bath. Sometimes I would do it for about four times everyday because simply I am not really feeling well and the comfort that showering gives me is my way of distracting myself from what I am feeling inside me.
Well those include that ammonia breath, nausea, and general feeling of ill health. I still could move around like normal person before so I could just jump right on to the bathroom and enjoy bathing around. But now things have changed, although my parents are more than happy to wheel me off to the bathroom I could not really make them wheel me off to there everyday much less three time per day or so.
Well I could not really do that kind of I consider a chore now because it is too difficult for me to exert myself in just showering because of my longstanding breathlessness issue when exerting myself even lightly. The stiffness and aches that I also feel is the number one factor in preventing me from doing the things that I am doing before not only bathing but also my hobbies as even getting up is just too difficult now because I could not even lift my already thinned-out body any more that easily.
The way compensate for my bathing if I could not get it more frequently is by the use of my rubbing alcohol made out of Ethyl, the alcohol that cam from sugar canes. It is more safer than Isopropyl alcohol which they say as carcinogenic because it comes from crude oil.
So with the use of a good toilet paper that doesn't easily tear, I would always dab on a small amount of alcohol to wipe off my face, neck, nape, my arms and my back and sometimes my legs. I also use it to relieve some itch and to also clean the outside of my mouth after eating or clean anything like my laptop and my phones and such.
My rubbing alcohol and my trusty tissue paper are so essential to me that it is impossible for me to go around without them. I have an oily face and cleaning my face with my tissue paper with alcohol is very important to me and they are now my preferred option to clean myself up because I could no longer go to the sink to be able to tidy myself unlike in the years that I am doing that many times a day especially in hot weather conditions.