Katalin
Distinguished member
- Joined
- Sep 22, 2018
- Messages
- 114
- Reason
- Lost a loved one
- Diagnosis
- 05/2018
- Country
- CA
- State
- Ontario
- City
- Toronto
Hi all, hoping someone can help with our problems with the alternating air mattress. Just had this delivered from the ALS closet on Thursday. First two nights, she finally slept till 5am, instead of 2am. That was good. Last night she slept badly. But the rest of it is a disaster. She is so miserable. One of the cells sits proud of the rest of the cells, right at the fold of her butt. I'm assuming it's proud because it's supposed to stop the patient from slipping down toward the foot of the bed. If we bring her higher in the bed, it's digging into the the area *below* the butt. Lower, and her mid-section is collapsing. Because she's generally always collapsing in the midsection, she's still having trouble passing gas (we're trying abdominal massage today), but she feels the gas-x is pushing gas toward her intestines and she can't pass it. And she's having passing urine in her brief since we got this mattress.
If we lower the pressure, she feels like she's bottoming out, and if we raise it, the dreaded ridge digs into her butt even more. We've got her on float, because if we use the alternating feature, the ridge really digs in when that zone is inflating. And the cherry on top is I have no real idea what she weighs. She's definitely flailing and miserable and uncomfortable. Any suggestions out there?
If we lower the pressure, she feels like she's bottoming out, and if we raise it, the dreaded ridge digs into her butt even more. We've got her on float, because if we use the alternating feature, the ridge really digs in when that zone is inflating. And the cherry on top is I have no real idea what she weighs. She's definitely flailing and miserable and uncomfortable. Any suggestions out there?