Hi All,
Thanks for your concern, and suggestions.
Barbara arrived home yesterday, closely followed by a procession of social workers, who all seemed keen to help. The even persuaded Barbara to have a commode in the bedroom (I never told you that), which I have suggested in the past ... and been violently rebuked for even thinking it.
Co-incidentally, the Social Workers happened to have a commode in the back of their car. Whatever turns them on!
My daughter doesn't drive, so it was a banking colleague who drove me to the hospital (they both took a day off from working at home ... my daughter is constantly on the phone, so I doubt that she/they could have have just sneaked out. A slick operation ... plenty of spaces in the car-park, and I probably spent more time being push-chaired from the car park by daughter's friend, than I spent sitting in the waiting room, and took only a very few minutes to take the photos. I'm impressed.
I have not yet discussed Barbara'e hospital experiences, she was still pretty traumatised and probably bruised. She also had a bad experience in the bedroom, hit the GO lever on her chariot too hard ... chariot
destroyed a sturdy folding chair (church hall type), and kept going into a chest of drawers. I've watched that chariot burn a black hole in a carpet, when she kept the power on with the front end being blocked by a door frame. Me? I treat it with a lot of respect ... too powerful.
I suspect that I'm going to have to investigate mechanical handling (Google BATH HOIST FOR SALE), an electric winch on a gantry, for getting her intp bed, transfer from chariot to WC, etc. I'm going to have to investigate how to "work" the Disabled Facilities Grant system. As far as I can make out, a £6,001 grant will be Means Tested, but a £6,000 grant isn't ... and being mandatoty, you can keep going back and asking for another £6,000. I will investigate.
Again thankyou for everybody's concern and good wishes.
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