JohnHMich
Active member
- Joined
- Feb 17, 2020
- Messages
- 58
- Reason
- Lost a loved one
- Diagnosis
- 4/2020
- Country
- US
- State
- MI
- City
- Ann Arbor
I find myself trying to balance getting the nutrition and water requirements satisfied, while dealing with my wife's bowel incontinence by myself. The Hoyer doesn't help because I can't get the brief off. I have a shower chair that mostly works to get her briefs off, but it is a struggle. Worse when they have been used. I finally went to using an inspection mirror to help with wiping because I'd start to lift her off the shower chair and find that we had missed a spot. When she was in the hospital they just used chucks at night and moved her to a bedside commode if she was able to request toileting. Not a solution for being outside the house. Possibly a solution for when she is in her powerchair at home? Right now, if I have to change her alone, I transfer her from the wheelchair to the shower chair, clean her up, transfer her from the shower chair to the bed to get her dressed and then back to the wheelchair. It's doable once a day, but hard when it gets to be 4x a day.
What's the right tradeoff?
What's the right tradeoff?