just thinking....
To shower or not to shower every day. I can see the pov of both the Ch and the relative.
From the pov of my mother, showering is now a horrible experience. She is losing her language, but in trying to tell me that 'they' had given her a shower, she described it like this.
"hitting all over" "most unpleasant" and used her hand to pat herself all over. It occurred to me that perhaps the water spray is actually painful on her frail, thin skinned body. Is that why people seem afraid or reluctant to shower?
I had never thought of this but you could easily be right. Showers do vary a lot in their intensity - I can see why some people would feel positively battered. I have felt a bit like that myself once or twice in an over-powerful hotel shower. But at the time I have mostly just thought of what a colossal waste it is, both of water and of the energy for heating it.