How to shower when you're in a cast and use a knee walker:

For the first few weeks, you'll probably need help because you're in pain and still learning how to maneuver around. But eventually, try this:

1. Sitting down, (I usually sit on the toilet because it's close to the shower), wrap a dish towel around your cast and tuck it in the top of the cast.
2. Place a large plastic kitchen bag over your cast, past the knee. Pull the drawstrings tight and tape (we use packing tape) all around the top of your knee, sealing the plastic bag.
3. Make sure everything is where you need it:
1. The shower chair should be facing the door -- and it should not be wobbly!
2. Your shampoo, conditioner, soap, shaver, etc. should all be reachable from the shower chair.
3. Your towel(s) should be reachable from your sitting position on the shower chair.
4. Make sure the water is set to come out the handheld wand and that the wand is placed where you can reach it sitting down.
4. Undress.
5. Back up on the knee scooter all the way to the shower, so the rear wheels hit the lip of the shower.
6. Put your uninjured foot INTO the shower, keeping your knee on the scooter.
7. Slowly lean back and sit in the shower chair.
8. Move the scooter just far enough away from the shower that you can close the door, if desired, but within reach from the shower chair. (Are you sure the plastic bag around your foot is watertight??) Urge kitty not to follow you into the shower.
9. Close the door. Turn on the water (you should be able to do this from the chair). Shower! Enjoy -- as much as possible, anyway.
10. When finished, shut off water. Open door, making sure not to push your scooter away. Grab towel(s), which you've placed within reach.
11. Pull scooter all the way up to the lip of the shower again.
12. Stand up on your good foot inside the shower, as close to the lip as possible.
13. Place knee on scooter, then push away from shower, lifting up your good foot once your knee is on the scooter.
14. Be careful of any water left on the floor!