Mmm sounds nice. The only places I know where you can do that are Harbin hot springs, which burned down, the Calistoga spa Inn, which changed its policy on day passes, and Breitenbush, way up in the Oregon Cascades between Bend and Salem.

Jackson Wellsprings kind of has that too, the hippie hot spring near Ashland. They don't have a cold pool but their mineral water is warm not hot, and then they have a hot pool that they heat up.

I'm totally into hot tubs and Hot Springs, but baths kind of gross me out. I guess because they're not deep enough or something, they seem inadequate, and then there's the annoyance factor of having to take a shower after you have a bath to wash off skin or dirt or whatever just soaked off your body. The private hot tubs here, it's mandatory to take a shower before you get in them, then I take one after also. Breitenbush dumps their water once a day and replaces it, which is how I got over the squick factor of people not showering before getting into their Pools.

The only thing that's going to get me out of this house is a hot tub, or maybe a movie, or maybe I'll just wait and go to yoga tomorrow morning.

Welcome home, Java! Sounds like mostly a lovely trip. And yeah, the Cat Java will be on your mind a fair bit for a while.

At the lady spa, it is mandatory to shower before going in the pools, and to shower after any scrub or massage service. And I shower after soaking, just so I don't smell like chlorine.

I keep pulling my right shoulder out of joint and feeling something get badly stretched inside. I'm nearly certain that my doctor will say to wear a sling for a while, until the swelling goes down, and then do physical therapy. I really don't want to have my right arm in a sling -- I'm right-handed, and my left hand is completely uncoordinated at doing anything.

Twenty four hours without a muscle relaxant OR pain meds. I even loaded the dishwasher and got that going this morning. Until today, bending over hurt worse than trying to walk.

Between follow-up PT appointments, a therapeutic massage, and my son turning 21, the next three days are going to be short work days. But I feel like I have seriously turned the corner back to human-dom again.

This seems relevant to our interests.

Soaking in a hot bath, especially with epsom salt, does help quite a bit when I can find the time to do it. Mom is here today and ltc just went down for a nap. So, I'm going to take one now, and hopefully it will reduce to urge to cut off my right leg, which has been killing me for a week.

I love a hot bath and find it very helpful, but my aches and pains are pretty minor.

Yes, Epsom baths can be helpful. I'd take more but it usually requires cleaning the tubs, which is not something I want to do when hurting. I don't clean the tub as much as I should, and my roommate just cleaned it for the first time since we moved in in October (and I did that super crazy deep clean). I thanked him, because I try to still be a decent human, and he was proud like a five-year who remember to flush and watch his hands. Calm down, honey.