Advice sought
I am having a rather annoying and embarassing problem, and I'm really hoping someone here has either encountered it themselves and found a solution, or no someone that has.
So we recently signed a new lease and moved. I live in a very old part of Boston, and the houses are subsequently elderly. I never thought to check this when we were viewing the place, and when I discovered the problem, it was too late.
Our upstairs bathroom is saved from perfection by having a tiny cubby for the toilet. The landlord put in a rather large vanity, and the commode is so close to the wall that a deep breath means the entire length of my thigh is pressed against the tiles. (Which given the recent weather, has been a mild shock in the middle of the night; cold!)
I can fit to sit and do my business, but cleaning up afterwards has been, to put it mildly, unpleasant. I can't twist around to reach; there's no room between the vanity and the wall. At best, I do a sort of crouching hover to do what I need to do, but that has not been mess-free, and I'm wondering if there are any other better options out there.
Replacing the vanity with something smaller might be an option, but only of last resort; our landlady does not speak terribly good English, and since this is a rental, I'm hesitant to just start ripping things out.
I ran into this issue for the first time in my life (and I've always been fat) earlier this year in the Carribbean, and I wonder if this is a new fad; tiny little cubicles for the commode?
I don't know what I can do; the toilet seat itself is fine, I fit just fine on a standard commode, I just... have no room to move my legs around without getting up off the pot.
Thanks in advance, and I'm not really sure what to tag this. :(