Toilet Seats: Cleaning Out Your Bank Account

       We just returned from ABR Montreal yesterday afternoon.  After 8 hours in the van with a kid who couldn't or wouldn't (non-verbal kids do get ornery) get comfortable in a wheelchair and was then slipping down on a cot that I secured in the van, I'm not ready yet to describe the ABR experience.  I'm sure the movies we got him to watch in the van lacked enough blond-female skin to make him pissy; "Bridesmaids" didn't quite pass muster.  So I thought I would post about toilets seats and fleecing handicapped kids' parents.  Here's why we are always broke.

        Adam uses a commode with a soft seat (because he has a bony ass) and a splash guard.  Only parents of handicapped kids know about splash guards, so don't ask.  So here is how we get fleeced by manufacturers of "medical " equipment and I use the word loosely.  I'll let the reader put the pieces together.

COMMODE:  (steel, portable, solid stable)  $40.00  US dollars

SOFT SEAT REDUCER RING WITH SLASH GUARD ( a bit of of soft rubber)

                  $320.00 - $220.00 (same item two sellers) US dollars

Just the blue ring, folks, nothing else
Adam's ring is a flashier blue!
BTW, the protrusion upward is the "splash guard"

A SUPER SOFT WALMART TOILET SEAT:  $14.00

       Let's see $320.00 US or 338.00 euros or 333.00$ Canadian loonies or 205 British pounds  or 1191.00 new shekels or 329 Australian dollars, etc.  We all know who's really getting wiped and it's not the kids!

CONCLUSION: A new toilet seat for the kid means MickeyD's for mom and dad!  Ah, the injustice which pervades the universe....