hi everyone,just wondered how u all feel about disabled toilets??why do some have them inside ladies and mens hey?if ur a man carer with a woman with ms ?which one do u use?if the womans in a wheel-chair and needs some help?and the other way a round too,a woman with a man with ms in a wheel-chair and needs some help??some places have room to put seprate disabled toilets too!!!!!some places r great,they r clean and roomy for ones stuck in a wheel-chair,and as well theres a baby-changeing table in them as well!!!!we with ms cant hang for long can we???and all the toilets should b key-operated too,as some abled bodies do use them for themselves and to take kids into ,take good care everyone,hugs,corinne
disabled toilets!!!!!
disabled toilets!!!!!
hi there, yeah, it really winds me up that non-disabled people think they have a right to use disabled toilets. all disabled toilets should need a radar key to access them, and radar keys should ONLY be available to disabled people xx
Get yourself a RADAR key, google their website. I have one and it has opened up :roll: a whole new world of space and clean facilities.
I have been on the carer side of the fence too, with male clients who needed support and obviously using the male conveniences. I'd knock the door, state loudly that a female carer was entering and then get my client sorted as needed, go over to the door and be obvious to all men aproaching. If anyone came in I'd pipe up 'don't mind me - I' a care worker :) be out of your way soon sir!' Occasional men would be shocked, most just nodded and popped out to wait - one guy was in a blazing hurry; snapped 'careworker eh, OK don't mind me!!' and proceeded to do the needful. Profesional careworkers don't peep!
I've had male coleagues in the vice versa; they do similar things and no one has been arrested on my watch!
Also think about it most places have a cleaner a bloke or a lassie; some time they will be in the other place!
As for the lucky majority using disabled facilities, it does happen and if there are other 'normal' facilitie available they should be ashamed. Before I was DX I did once have to use the disabled facility in Sainsbury - the male cleaner was dealing with an 'issue' in the main ladies loo and sent me there!!!Clarexxx
05 Oct 2011 at 6:21PM
Hi ya
Do you mean disabled toilets or cleaners cuboards / storage space ?
;-)
Neil
Hi, i`ve recently been having fun (not) with disabled toilets.
In one week these were my experiences;
I used a disabled loo and lent on the drop down grab rail, heard a creak and it came out of the plasterboard wall!
I sat outside the loo in M&S, by a sign which read `Closed for cleaning` for 10 minutes. then asked a shop assistant if the cleaning would take much longer. She said, `Oh, it`s not closed for cleaning...it`s broken!`
Then I used a market one....there was hardly room for me and my wheelie and my carer had to squeeze in to help me. And the smell....yeuk...we could hardly breath!
So, yeh, it`s fun with our loos, innit!
luv pollx
neil14 wrote:
Hi yaDo you mean disabled toilets or cleaners cuboards / storage space ?
;-)
Neil
I must have been lucky in my choice (like a pwMS gets to choose when to go :oops: ) as I have not found the loos I use smelly, broken or turned into storage - or did you mean the places the cleaners hang out (I suspect one or two places I've 'been' the cleaners area is rather swisher than your average loo!) asopposed to 'Lady cleaner in the john!' & 'Male attendant in the girlsroom!'?
Clarexxx
06 Oct 2011 at 12:05AM
I've started using disabled toilets more now. I'm not in a wheelchair, but navigating one or two doors (one sometimes very heavy) wobbling with my stick, having to find somewhere to put it while I use the facilities without having to pick it back up from the floor afterwards has made me change my mind about using them!
And fighting with the sink etc with a stick is fun - for the people who get 'hit' by my stick when I've got it hung around my wrist.
At the moment I'm very dizzy, my eyesight goes all double when I'm tired (most of the time at the moment!) and my legs are being 'amusing' so I feel less embarrassed and scared someone is going to tell me off!
I don't have a radar key, and I'm not sure how I feel about making every disabled toilet to need us to have one before anyone can use it.
06 Oct 2011 at 7:52AM
i travel around the ulk alot and use wheelchair accesable toilets allover the place service stations/pubs/football grounds/stations and overall there not too bad the mainissues i have are with some being used as storage spaces but im not bothered if there in laduies loos or mens after all what am i going to see ? lol i think alot are used as baby changing areas wchich doesnt bother me at all.im glad most dont need a radar key as its a massive jailer type key and hard to carry about. usualy tho theres someone close at hand with one so maybe its not so bad.
Baby changinfg facilites.
Why ? & people who take there childeren to use them.
I was waiting outside one, crossing my legs (figoritivly speeking) and a woman came out with a young child, she said, " she won't use a public toilet".
Well isn't this one.
And lastly why do they think it's OK to store their bikes in them.
Ronin
The hospital I go to has just made their disabled toilets male or female, rather then unisex. I was leaving the hospital on Monday and decided to pop to the toilet by the entrance on my way out, only to find it's now a male disabled toilet only and I was directed to the physio dept for the nearest other disabled toilet. That was labelled "WC" on the door and was still unisex. I pointed this out to my physio and she said she didn't know why that particular one was still unisex and that it must have escaped the change. Apparently, it's now policy for all toilets to be single sex, so your comment about what happens if your carer is a different sex is very valid.
I think there's a lot of confused messages sent out about disabled toilets. People don't know if they're for everyone to use but contain equiptment to aid the disabled, or whether they're just for use by disabled people. As people are on the whole living longer and/or getting fatter, I find people prefer to use the larger space and have the privacy a disabled toilet gives. Parents prefer their children to use the disabled toilet because they feel it's safer. At my boys' school, the disabled toilet is for adults/teachers to use. The facilities are there incase they're needed. I think that sends out the wrong message to the kids.
Heather
