pvale
Distinguished member
- Joined
- Apr 15, 2009
- Messages
- 106
- Reason
- PALS
- Diagnosis
- 08/2009
- Country
- US
- State
- NE
- City
- Lincoln
Well, we did it, got all moved in one long weekend. We are stuffed into this one bedroom handicap apartment, and a good lot of our stuff is in storage. This apartment has a handicap accessable kitchen sink, and I can get under it with the wheelchair. Bathroom has a roll-in shower, and ALSA delivered a rolling shower chair. This is a senior living facility and I'm apparently the youngest resident. I have aides coming in the morning and night to get me into and out of bed. Also shower aide, and housekeeping aide. We get 2 meals a day, 6 days a week down in the lunchroom. Food is relatively decent, but we are on our own for Sundays.
We are on the 1st floor, along with all the other wheelchair-bound people. Building has 8 floors, 120 apartments. I have a hospital bed now, and it's been a bit of fun getting used to it. I'd post a couple of pictures of the place, but I dropped my cell phone in the toilet 2 days after getting here, so it's toast. One AT&T store in Lincoln, in the south end of town, and I'm in the North end. I haven't tried out the public transport here yet, but they say all the busses are wheelchair compatible.
Been here a week now, and it's been a busy one. Getting wife set up for dialysis and transport to and from, setting up Lifeline, a emergency call service. I'll have wrist band with a button on it. Applying for this and that and everything else in between. My voice has taken a big hit through all of this, and I'm really going to have to buckle down and study Prologue on the Ipod. Not really sure it is worthwhile getting another cell phone, but 9 months to run on contract.
So, here we are, and here we'll stay, in the state I was born in.
Perry
We are on the 1st floor, along with all the other wheelchair-bound people. Building has 8 floors, 120 apartments. I have a hospital bed now, and it's been a bit of fun getting used to it. I'd post a couple of pictures of the place, but I dropped my cell phone in the toilet 2 days after getting here, so it's toast. One AT&T store in Lincoln, in the south end of town, and I'm in the North end. I haven't tried out the public transport here yet, but they say all the busses are wheelchair compatible.
Been here a week now, and it's been a busy one. Getting wife set up for dialysis and transport to and from, setting up Lifeline, a emergency call service. I'll have wrist band with a button on it. Applying for this and that and everything else in between. My voice has taken a big hit through all of this, and I'm really going to have to buckle down and study Prologue on the Ipod. Not really sure it is worthwhile getting another cell phone, but 9 months to run on contract.
So, here we are, and here we'll stay, in the state I was born in.
Perry
