Well, I thought I would never need grab bars in a tub until I had a unreal accident happen to me.
i was taking a shower in my bathtub ( I hate bathtubs to this day, now) and I had a half bathmat ( another mistake) and when I turned my body to get out, my foot slipped with the bath mat and I was going to fall, you only have a few seconds to decide what to do. I tried grabbing the shower curtain but it slipped thru my hands like butter and literally flew like a pike( fish) out of the bathtub!( I remembered watching Alone as the fish flew out of the water and hit its head on the rocks, man, that had to have hurt, poor fish) I envisioned myself in the exact way flying out, and hit my head on the stone floor, whack, **bleep**!! I laid on the stone floor and waited for my body to regroup. My daughter was yelling " Are you all right?" I couldn't speak right away, my body was still in shock. I told just wait a minute. She slowly opened the door as I sat on the floor. She asked me how I felt, broken bones, nothing I said because it didn't happen I told myself over and over again. Well, I broke no bones! No concussion on my head, Icepack city that was.
It was a Wakeup call- handbars were ordered and now are on the bathtub. A full length bathmat was ordered by my daughter.
Bathtubs can literally kill you, because of no bars anywhere. Two other kids fell in our bathtub, one hit the faucet, the other banged his knees.
Get those bars on your bathtub and don't be a Fish Out of Water!
