Tasimon25
New member
- Joined
- Aug 1, 2013
- Messages
- 3
- Reason
- CALS
- Diagnosis
- 02/2013
- Country
- US
- State
- MO
- City
- Saint Peters
My mom was diagnosed in March 2013. She is unable to walk and is quickly getting to the point where she cannot support any weight on her legs. We have been transferring her manually from her lift chair to toilet, but she is overweight and its becoming unsafe for her to continue to move her in this manner.
We have hoyer with mesh sling but unless she is nude from waist down, not sure how that helps us. She has weak bladder after having 7 children so there is not a lot of time for transferring, either.
At night we use a bedpan in bed and that is working fine. Her lift chair is too narrow to use bedpan in it and she's not advanced to the point where she is bedridden all day.
I'm searching for help. I can still manage her okay but one sibling, who is much shorter than the rest of us, cannot so we are trying to get ideas quickly so we are all prepared before we can't lift her at all.
We have hoyer with mesh sling but unless she is nude from waist down, not sure how that helps us. She has weak bladder after having 7 children so there is not a lot of time for transferring, either.
At night we use a bedpan in bed and that is working fine. Her lift chair is too narrow to use bedpan in it and she's not advanced to the point where she is bedridden all day.
I'm searching for help. I can still manage her okay but one sibling, who is much shorter than the rest of us, cannot so we are trying to get ideas quickly so we are all prepared before we can't lift her at all.