Wow, Jim, sure hope you get better soon, I'd hate to get stuck in bed, I only have a Queen regular bed...Sometime I may need to get a bed that the head with lift up and down and an alternating pressure mattress, So far I just sleep with a pillow under my rear keeping me turned and half thru the night, I get turned the other way. Dan H**
________________________________ From: Jim Lubin <jlu...@eskimo.com> To: "wheelch...@aol.com" <wheelch...@aol.com> Cc: James Lubin <jlu...@eskimo.com>; Bobbie Humphreys <bobbiehumphre...@gmail.com>; quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 8:40 PM Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Days in bed 2013 they briefly discussed a wound vac, but it would have involved a stay in the hospital. I'm too paranoid of getting any infections going to a hospital. This year makes 25 years and the only respiratory infection I have ever had was year 1 while in rehab. Over the year it went from 2.7cm deep to 1cm deep now. Might heal faster if I completely get off it but I have not been, just on the alternating air mattress. On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 4:35 PM, <wheelch...@aol.com> wrote: >Sorry to hear that Jim. Are you also using a wound vac? >Best Wishes > > >In a message dated 1/21/2014 6:33:42 P.M. Central Standard Time, >jlu...@eskimo.com writes: >I've been in bed since December 2012. I've only been getting out of bed into >my chair once a month to go to the wound clinic. I use to hate being in bed >but have realized what the problem was that with my adaptive input not setup >to use from bed I couldn't do anything. Now that I can use the computer from >bed and control the tv/dvr using a slingbox, I can do everything I would >normally be doing from bed. No need to get dressed, do transfers in and out >of bed saving about an hour a day to do something else. >> >> >>My would was small but deep. I was given the option of flap surgery but that >>would require going to the hospital then a nursing home. No thanks. So it's >>healing slowly, no infections. My nurses change the packing in the wound >>daily. >> >> >>Jim
