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7:09pm February 22, 2012
[Remote control to a toilet seat. It has buttons across the top for Stop, Posterior, Feminine, Enema, and Dry. Buttons down the right side for Massage, Move, and Economy. And other buttons for intensity of the water or dryer, nozzle position, and temperature control for both water and seat. And various green and orange LEDs.] So I’d just mentioned this to a friend the other night, and on here mentioned trouble wiping my butt. This thing is the solution to that problem. It’s the remote control to a toilet seat that sprays water on your butt (or wherever else) and then blow-dries it. It’s a good example of where what’s a luxury item to one person is assistive technology to another. Anyway, for quite awhile before getting this I only got my butt cleaned six times a week of I was lucky. This generally saves me from sitting around for days with crusty shit on my butt. (There’s no possible way to make that sound better with a euphemism.) It’s not perfect but it’s light years ahead of before my brother sent it to me. It’s pretty much the same as getting a shower. And nobody else has to be involved. Which is cool, because I can tolerate people doing that but wherever possible it’s so much less hassle to do things like that myself. It strikes me that a lot of things could be done electronically that just aren’t because fewer people think of designing things that disabled people would use.

[Remote control to a toilet seat. It has buttons across the top for Stop, Posterior, Feminine, Enema, and Dry. Buttons down the right side for Massage, Move, and Economy. And other buttons for intensity of the water or dryer, nozzle position, and temperature control for both water and seat. And various green and orange LEDs.]

So I’d just mentioned this to a friend the other night, and on here mentioned trouble wiping my butt. This thing is the solution to that problem. It’s the remote control to a toilet seat that sprays water on your butt (or wherever else) and then blow-dries it. It’s a good example of where what’s a luxury item to one person is assistive technology to another.

Anyway, for quite awhile before getting this I only got my butt cleaned six times a week of I was lucky. This generally saves me from sitting around for days with crusty shit on my butt. (There’s no possible way to make that sound better with a euphemism.) It’s not perfect but it’s light years ahead of before my brother sent it to me. It’s pretty much the same as getting a shower. And nobody else has to be involved. Which is cool, because I can tolerate people doing that but wherever possible it’s so much less hassle to do things like that myself.

It strikes me that a lot of things could be done electronically that just aren’t because fewer people think of designing things that disabled people would use.