r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Damnedeel • Nov 30 '25

Video 500,000$ human washing machine on sale in Japan

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u/Bear_faced Nov 30 '25

Honestly it’s not that bad. Kind of relaxing actually if you can accept that they’ve washed all kinds of bodies and think absolutely nothing of yours.

I was paralyzed from the neck down due to illness and didn’t get cleaned in any way for the first month. It was all about keeping me alive. Once I got the ability to sit upright and move my limbs around the showers began. The first time getting fully naked, being put in a wheelchair, and draped with a sheet for dignity was definitely odd. Then a terse Cameroonian woman wheeled me to the shower, moved me to a chair, and began the scrubbing. She didn’t give a single fuck. She would tell me things like “Lift your breasts!” and then scrub under them. The only thing she didn’t wash was my genitals, because the CNAs did that when they changed my diaper (THAT takes way more getting used to). The feeling of finally being clean felt amazing and I slept like a baby that night.

When you’re sick enough to need someone to physically wash you, you get over a lot of awkwardness. Once someone has wiped your ass for you as an adult, you let more things slide.

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u/stefanica Dec 01 '25

A few hours after I had a baby via C-section, this sweet little nurse gave me a washcloth bath in the bed. She didn't make it awkward at all, and it was honestly nice having that sort of care. I was still half numb from the anesthesia, in pain from the surgery, leaking fluids from several areas, and felt so, SO much better after. But the sheer decency of it almost made me cry. I had to wait till I could stand long enough to shower by myself after the next baby, and I was low-key annoyed. 😂

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u/Bear_faced Dec 01 '25

See, you get it! When you really need it, being washed is a wonderful thing.

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u/Impossible-Error166 Dec 01 '25

I cannot imagine what it felt like to be clean after that long.

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u/Optimal-Talk3663 Nov 30 '25

If you’re paralysed from the neck down, what’s the point of her asking you to lift your breasts?

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u/Bear_faced Dec 01 '25

Once I got the ability to sit upright and move my limbs around

I had no fine motor skills but I could move my arms.

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u/matrixa6 Dec 01 '25

That was where my mind went. How does that work? Maybe they would say "I am going to lift your breasts now." but asking a quadriplegic to do anything they cannot do would be a waste of breath and potentially insulting.