Jan 5, 2007
We found out that insurance will pay for that second round of Day Program. Evidently it is not usual that they do so, but the insurance representative got together with the Shepherd people, who told her how valuable the program had been for Gary and what his accomplishments had been, and insurance then agreed to pay for it.
We are, however, having problems getting the new-model raised toilet seat. Our supplier won’t take back the old one they gave us and exchange it for a new one, they say because they never charged us for it. Fat lot of good it does us, since it is something he’ll never use.
It would be nice if little frustrations would go away. Gary has evidently developed an allergy to latex – or maybe to the powder on the latex gloves. He got rid of the rash on his hands by putting on vinyl gloves first and then latex ones over that (he needs to wear two pairs of gloves for the bowel program, and the vinyl ones are hard to get on). But for some reason neither of us thought about where those latex ones still touch him. So now we have booty-rash to contend with.
Jan 6, 2007
A little unwelcome excitement tonight – Gary lost his balance while sitting lengthwise on his bed, and the top half of him went off the bed. Fortunately, I was in the room, since he had recently called me in to put his pillows on his bed for him, and I ran over as he was falling (me, yelling “Gary!”, him, saying "Oop!Oop!Oop!"). I dove and caught him and heaved him back onto the bed. He said it was a good thing I'd been there and noted we almost had had an opportunity to try a floor-to-chair transfer. I was shaking.
We found out that insurance will pay for that second round of Day Program. Evidently it is not usual that they do so, but the insurance representative got together with the Shepherd people, who told her how valuable the program had been for Gary and what his accomplishments had been, and insurance then agreed to pay for it.
We are, however, having problems getting the new-model raised toilet seat. Our supplier won’t take back the old one they gave us and exchange it for a new one, they say because they never charged us for it. Fat lot of good it does us, since it is something he’ll never use.
It would be nice if little frustrations would go away. Gary has evidently developed an allergy to latex – or maybe to the powder on the latex gloves. He got rid of the rash on his hands by putting on vinyl gloves first and then latex ones over that (he needs to wear two pairs of gloves for the bowel program, and the vinyl ones are hard to get on). But for some reason neither of us thought about where those latex ones still touch him. So now we have booty-rash to contend with.
Jan 6, 2007
A little unwelcome excitement tonight – Gary lost his balance while sitting lengthwise on his bed, and the top half of him went off the bed. Fortunately, I was in the room, since he had recently called me in to put his pillows on his bed for him, and I ran over as he was falling (me, yelling “Gary!”, him, saying "Oop!Oop!Oop!"). I dove and caught him and heaved him back onto the bed. He said it was a good thing I'd been there and noted we almost had had an opportunity to try a floor-to-chair transfer. I was shaking.
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