Gene has always lifted Casey in and out of his chair and in and out of bed. The nurses and I will try to time it for when Gene is here and available, or we will use the Hoyer lift. The nurses and I are pretty good at it. Each nurse and I have a routine of who does what. There's a lot of fiddling around of equipment--like moving the cough machine, Tobii stand, IPV machine, or whatever happens to be in the area. It takes a certain finesse which takes a bit of time to acquire and sometimes we have it and it's a smooth run and sometimes it's a flub. Casey has never been hurt but I'm sure sometimes we look like the Keystone Cops or the Three Stooges, hahaha.
Gene had always hated the lift. He thought it was a pain and took too much time, blah, blah, blah. We have always encouraged him to use it but he was stubborn. Finally, he gave in. His back and other parts have been bugging him lately so he's been having the nurse and I do the lift. (It can be done with one person but is pretty tricky so it's way better to have two people). Well, Thursday we had no nurse but Paula was coming to the house to do some school for a couple of hours and Casey needed to be in his chair so....we did it! And we did it pretty smoothly.
We've done it a couple of times ourselves since and we're getting into our groove. Pretty proud :)
We have a dusty neglected lift too. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI suppose we all rely on what we know has always "worked". It certainly is wise to save yourself for the work that technology cannot do but utilize use it for what it can do efficiently. Glad you're preventing an injury to Dad!
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