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Allergic to morphine
My honey decided it was time to go on hospice care last week, All was going well, a few new meds to help with the respiratory distress and a nurse a phone call away! Very nice until Sunday morning, I realized his lips had swollen over night till they looked like Mik Jaggars' lips, One of his...- Nealbob14
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Milford patient hoist
My special PAL is now unable to stand and pivot for transferring, he is always either in the hospital bed or PWC, we are exclusively using a manual Hoyer lift with a split sling for transfers. We don't have a van to take him anywhere, we are totally at the mercy of the local non-emergancy...- Nealbob14
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Bathing issues
So we are having great difficulty figuring out a safe way for my honey to shower, he is able to ambulate with his rollater/walker, but has a real difficulty getting up if he is sitting, in the shower we have a shower chair and it always is a struggle for him to get up. We cant afford to remodel...- Nealbob14
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- als chair help! ideas issues shower shower chair walker wheelchair
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