From: eleeper@optonline.net   
      
   On Thursday, December 21, 2023 at 11:53:31 AM UTC-5, Jay E. Morris wrote:   
   > On 12/20/2023 11:25 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:    
   > > In article <265qni5up9v4fc2vp...@4ax.com>,    
   > > Joy Beeson  wrote:    
   > >>    
   > >> At my annual medicare assessment (in 2020 they discovered that they    
   > >> could do these interviews by phone, to the great convenience of all    
   > >> concerned) the nurse asked whether I had a walk-in shower, then a few    
   > >> hours later I checked into Facebook to be confronted by an    
   > >> advertisement for an amazingly-cheap "walk-in shower" that could be    
   > >> installed in only one day.    
   > >>    
   > >> I've never seen a shower that wasn't walk in. What are these folks on    
   > >> about?    
   > >    
   > > [Hal Heydt]    
   > > I'd be more concerned about HIPAA violations. How did whoever    
   > > call you know you didn't have one, right after discussing the    
   > > issue with a health care provider?    
   > >    
   > > As for what it is... They may mean one with no lip at entry.    
   > > I've seen such things in hotels where a room is specified for    
   > > wheelchair accessibility.   
   > Our new house has both tub and walk-in shower. Having both or just a    
   > walk-in shower in the master[1] bedroom in new homes has been pretty    
   > common around here (southwest Texas) for probably a decade, outside of    
   > starter homes.    
   >    
   > [1]excuse me, en-suite.   
      
   As I understand it, a quarter-bath has a toilet but nothing else, a half-bath   
   a toilet    
   and a sink, and a three-quarter bath a toilet, a sink, and a shower stall.  My    
   parents' house, built in the 1950s, had a three-quarter bath off the master   
   bedroom,    
   and it was by no means an upscale house.  (They paid $17,500 in 1964; adjusted   
   for    
   inflation that would be $168,089 in 2023.)   
      
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