December 17, 2006
I slept great on the hospital bed, much to my surprise. And Gary did just fine in the double bed. So, maybe we will switch beds when we get back home. Only, we’ll have to get someone to take my mattress and box springs off the bed frame – that would be a very high transfer for Gary to have to do twice a day!
He practiced with the commode chair again, only he had trouble keeping his balance while doing a weight shift on it because there is no back of the chair to hold him. So he wanted me to help hold him up while he was depressed upward! That was tough – we’ll have to ask the therapists what he should do, as I’m certain we’re not supposed to do that for the rest of his life;-). The next time he needed to do the weight shift, he said to try just holding him in place for his balance and not actually lifting him up. That was easier on me! I guess like other things he will just learn to keep his balance better. He said that he thought doing the bowel program on the chair was faster than in the bed. It took him fifty minutes from start to finish. He took a shower after that, but skipped dressing in the chair – he hadn’t dressed in the double bed, so he wanted to make sure he could do that. At any rate, it took him four hours to do the four things of eating, bowel program, shower, dressing – it would have taken even longer if he’d dressed in the chair. But he says that he thinks he is going to like using the commode seat once he gets the transfers down to where I don’t have to help him with that (and as well figures out how to do his weight shifts on it without my help).
We spent a “lazy day” around the apartment, except for going grocery shopping in the afternoon. I spent time working on my story and also went online to buy Gary some Christmas gifts.
I slept great on the hospital bed, much to my surprise. And Gary did just fine in the double bed. So, maybe we will switch beds when we get back home. Only, we’ll have to get someone to take my mattress and box springs off the bed frame – that would be a very high transfer for Gary to have to do twice a day!
He practiced with the commode chair again, only he had trouble keeping his balance while doing a weight shift on it because there is no back of the chair to hold him. So he wanted me to help hold him up while he was depressed upward! That was tough – we’ll have to ask the therapists what he should do, as I’m certain we’re not supposed to do that for the rest of his life;-). The next time he needed to do the weight shift, he said to try just holding him in place for his balance and not actually lifting him up. That was easier on me! I guess like other things he will just learn to keep his balance better. He said that he thought doing the bowel program on the chair was faster than in the bed. It took him fifty minutes from start to finish. He took a shower after that, but skipped dressing in the chair – he hadn’t dressed in the double bed, so he wanted to make sure he could do that. At any rate, it took him four hours to do the four things of eating, bowel program, shower, dressing – it would have taken even longer if he’d dressed in the chair. But he says that he thinks he is going to like using the commode seat once he gets the transfers down to where I don’t have to help him with that (and as well figures out how to do his weight shifts on it without my help).
We spent a “lazy day” around the apartment, except for going grocery shopping in the afternoon. I spent time working on my story and also went online to buy Gary some Christmas gifts.
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