Flip Side-Bed & Bathroom Plan 3

A foolish son is the ruin of his father, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping. Proverbs 19:13 NKJV

The bathrooming part of Plan 2, worked out O.K. for me, but the  being able to find a comfortable way to prop up my broken heel while sleeping was not a ten! After many sleepless nights rearranging pillows that my cast squashed down, I was prayerful about another plan. 

 After talking to my patient husband, we realized that I should sleep in the frontroom in a chair that reclines, so I could prop my foot up and get some sleep.

 With this, came the need for a different bathroom plan, since I was sleeping at the other end of the house. We decided to put the walker from the bedroom into the frontroom a few feet in front of the reclining chair.

 When I would have to use the restroom, I would take the pillows out of the reclining chair and reach forward to pull my walker toward me. I would push up on both arms of the chair to standing position where I could grab onto the walker. I would hobble with the walker over the carpet in the frontroom and the tile in the hall. I would turn sideways to hobble through the narrow bathroom door. Then, I would do small quarter turns in front of the toilet to back up to it. I used a hand on the sink and the other on the shower table to ease down onto the toilet.

 I would do the same in reverse after finishing to get back up to the walker. Then, I would hobble sideways through the doorway and forward down the hall and into the frontroom. When I was close to the reclining chair, I would do little quarter turns to back up to the chair before sitting down. 

 This plan worked for a long time until my arms got too weak from supporting my weight on the walker to and from the bathroom about once every hour or so. I will explain how we remedied that in the next post.

Since these are examples of how I've applied these Bible verses to my experience, they may not reflect the whole meaning of the verse.

I'm including You Tube Video clips on caregiving that I found interesting, inspirational, or might be helpful to others, but am not responsible for the content in the videos. Always check first with a physician before trying any suggestions mentioned.

 Video: How to Transfer a Patient from the bed to the Wheelchair
By: Alice Holland, eHowhealth via Youtube

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