On a roll
I don’t know what I would do without kitchen paper.
For the past many months I have had a large stock of maybe a dozen rolls of super absorbent paper. This stuff has large sheets, feels solid almost like sandpaper and I found it to be fantastic at mopping up all the puddles that Penny scattered around.
Sadly that paper has been relegated to kitchen spills as Penny is no longer with us and I haven’t quite started yet on leaving puddles around. Give me time?
The puddle-paper was relatively expensive but I now have another stash of the cheapest possible stuff. Paradoxically the cheapest paper is the one that now fulfills my needs. The house is now scattered with used sheets that I haven’t bothered to clean up [I clear them up periodically when I have a burst of energy]. There are five or six folded and rather disgusting looking sheets on my armchair as I sit here.
This cheap paper isn’t as absorbent but it has the one feature the other lacks – it’s soft.
This cancer of mine has a “feature” that I find particularly annoying: it leaks. My nose leaks in multiple places and my neck is always drenched. I don’t know what this leakage is. Am I melting? Am I thawing? Is the cancer liquefying me? Whatever the cause, the flow is constant and very annoying. My shirt collars are all stiff with this sticky gunk as is my hair, By beard used to be matted with it but now it just crusts on my chin.
At regular intervals I have to fold up a sheet of soft paper and very gently swab my nose. If I forget the drips just go down my shirt-front. Another mess.
At night of course there is another problem. If I am fortunate to fall asleep the gunge continues to flow so that the pillow, sheet and mattress are all stained, sticky and wet. I now have to sleep with my head on padding. Fortunately I tend to stay in the one position when I sleep otherwise I would wake to a right mess.
All I can say is thank God for cheap kitchen paper.
Nose drips. Try one of those plastic children’s feeding bibs with the built-in spill catch tray. It won’t fit your neck but with a pair of scissors and a bit of cord you could easily modify it to fit and stay in place even when you nod off.
I believe I understand your dilemma. You may not want to throw out the paper towel immediately because there’s still room on it for one or two more swipes. If this is the problem, try cutting the towel into thirds and toss into the waste paper basket, which you have conveniently placed next to your chair, after one swipe. You could also buckle on on waist bag/belt bag and use this as a waste basket.
Always thinking of practical solutions.
Sue