Moisturizers & Coconut Oil & Slippery Shower Floors!

[Forest Walker]

I learned the hard way this week.  No matter that I keep the shower stall clean, using a squeegee on the walls and floors, drying with a cloth after showering.  Each time I shower, the moisturizer creams or the coconut oil makes the shower stall floor slick.

I'd forgotten my razor on the bathroom counter and turned off the shower's flow, quickly stepped out of shower to fetch the razor, quickly hopped back into the shower stall to shave my legs.  A sudden loss of balance and nothing to be done for it.

I fell against the stall's built-in bench, striking my side between my ribs and hip on Tuesday.  I was temporarily immobilized by pain and could only call out in agony.  My partner rushed in, assessed the crisis, covered me with a towel, and sat on the floor nearby until I could move.  

The rest of Tuesday was pained with little mobility.  I slept sitting up.  On Wednesday, a trip to "same day" care for doctor and x-rays took three hours.  But nothing was broken. Kidney is okay.  Heart is okay.  I got prescriptions for Tramadol and Lidocaine Patches.  

I'm resting and hoping to be able to work on Saturday.  

So this is my warning to not try gymnastics in the shower or bath if you are also using moisturizers and/or coconut oil.  (And it's my appeal for sympathy since it still hurts, even though it's 70% better than Tuesday.)

[Turnedlight]

Aww poor you, it really hurts to fall over as an adult.. I hope you recover from it quickly..

[Fred]

Oil and water never mix FW

Get out of the shower before using coconut oil or any moisturiser.

[Wooley]

Oh Forest, you poor thing, not nice at all to do that!!!  At least no damage to bones or kidney's.  Hope you feel better soon 

[jiml]

Ohhh poor you, sounds very painful, I never moisturise in the shower cubical. I always get out first, and I move so slowly I'm unlikely to slip get well soon

[Caroline]

You have all my sympathy and good wishes Forest.

This must have badly hurted. Do you have a lot of bruises? Luckily nothing is broken.
All my best wishes for you and hope that you will recover quickly and that the pain goes awau soon.

We have special tiles in the shower. It is a tile that has kind of a profile it is rough as if they sprayed sand over it before baking the tile.
They are not at all slippery.

[KatT]

Awwww Forest hope you feel better soon!  Good thing you went to the doctor to have it checked out and got some pain relief.

[Kat]

Definitely watch it with moisturizing in the shower! Better to save that for afterwards so you won't have a slick floor. I run into it a bit with hair conditioner. Another option is to go for a no slick mat or some such.

Be careful and hope you heal up and feel better soon!!

[Forest Walker]

Thank you, my friends.  It still hurts quite a lot.  I felt ribs "popping" twice since the fall and am not sure the "Same Day" clinic was worth the expense.  I'm going to schedule an appointment for next week with my primary care doctor.  But the Tramadol is providing some relief of pain, and I was able to lie on my back in bed without having to sit up last night, so there is improvement.  

I don't know what "popping" ribs means, but I felt it, followed by more discomfort in the area. 

I wasn't clear in my complaints about moisturizing.  I don't apply it in the shower.  It rinses off my body from earlier applications and slickens the shower floor.  I'm going to take Kat's advice and get a shower mat.  Caroline's sanded tiles sound wonderful.

[Caroline]

Makes very much sense to schedule an appointment with you own doctor, just to check.
Almost certain your ribs are bruised, and you may have some other bruises too.

Luckily the body normally heals itself, only that costs time and pain.

These are my tiles, I tried to make a picture of them. You can see the little bumps on the tiles.