You fell
You can't get up...
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When my husband was fighting prostate cancer last year, the radiation treatments stripped him of his stamina and he fell a number of times. The first two times, even though he wasn't hurt I called 911 because I was not strong enough to get him up by myself. I started to look for a better way to help him. I searched every webpage that promised convalescent and rescue aids. I even found one device that I could slide under him and blow up and it would lift him...but, really? Then I found the bath lift chair and I thought I might be able to get him up with this next time.
Within 3 days the bath lift chair came from Amazon and I decided the we would store it next to the fireplace. Why? Because in our small house you can't miss where the fireplace is, thus if I told you to go find it next to the fireplace and bring it to my collapsed spouse, you'd find it and bring it and quickly. I have a friend who has now put one in her bedroom and her living room as she lives alone and if she falls she might not fall in the room that has the rescue chair. With each of us having two knee replacements, neither of us can get up without at least two extra helpers.Its been in our house about a year and we've each used it at least 3 times. In that time and with that usage we haven't even needed to re-charge the hand control. We brag about this device to all the baby boomers that we know because it has given us piece of mind and we don't have fire trucks in front of the house twice a month anymore! Note: As you look around for these you will see them for $100 more, even $200 more. What's the difference? Nothing. They all work the same and are made of a heavy duty plastic and their hand control remote is even the same. A friend asked today if she bought one, could she also use it for lowering herself into her bath...yes, that's what it was originally designed for! |