From: morrisj@epsilon3.comcon   
      
   On 12/21/2023 11:05 PM, eleeper@optonline.net wrote:   
   > 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.)   
   >   
   > --   
   > Evelyn C. Leeper   
      
   That was probably a fiberglass surround. Now days they're frequently   
   marble or tile.  The picture I linked to earlier would be mid-level.   
   This would be more upscale.   
   https://media.angi.com/s3fs-public/walk-in-shower-ideas-walk-in-   
   hower-room.jpeg   
      
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