When
I had my first stenosis operation for five years ago now the surgeon
must equip the nerve or something because I lost almost all movement
on the left side of my body anyway my upper arm since my left leg was
already fairly will compromised from the initial neurological insult.
I thought about that issue a lot and I've come to the conclusion that
the neurosurgeon goofed up big time. Other medical people I've talked
to since the surgery of all indicated that the effort to release the
pressure should of made my life somewhat better not worse of course
it was. The night before my first neurosurgery I was totally
independent. I put myself to bed got up showered shaved and dressed
and Dianne took me to surgery. When I woke up I was a mess but the
stenosis was gone supposedly. I could barely move my left side. I
could no longer transfer into our out of bed, on our off the toilet
let alone onto the shower bench. In fact I never went back to my
bedroom that I shared with my wife. I'm not even going to get into
the fact that I had to have machine food – – essentially
everything was puréedso I could swallow and not choke to death. I
could not believe that I was astounded.
My
ex-wife is so cool – – I've said this before and I still believe
this – – she can research anything in one of the things that she
did initially before I could come home from the hospital was defined
a bed that would work for me. She did this of course a great little
bed that is totally motorized guy run from my control box at the end
of accord. It's actually a great little bad I've loved it. Before, I
would just roll up to the big bed I shared with Dianne (a king size
bed) and would basically role in the bed from my manual wheelchair.
And I would pull myself into the chair the next morning I got up.
That was a no go now. The bed is a beauty, the foot of the bed raises
up and down as does the head of the bed. The whole bed frame of the
mattress actually rises about 6 inches. But nifty is that when I go
to bed I can lower the bed significantly lower than my power chair
which allows me to literally dive in the bed and roll when I hit the
mattress the next morning, when I rise, I can raise the bid high
enough to ride just do a controlled fall into my power chair…
Sweet! This power bed really is a wonderful bed.
About
a year ago I noticed my power bed was beginning to make weird noises
during the night. The noise is bed springs settling, you know that
sound Creek Creek click click then start all over again. The noise
came on somewhat slowly so I didn't pay much attention. The noise
always happened after I tumbled and bed and after a few minutes with
settle down and I would fall asleep sleeping on my side. Over the
last few months the noise is gotten worse. There been a couple times
where I thought the noise you keep me up all night but eventually I
must tumble off to sleep because I wake up and there is no noise
coming from the mattress or bed springs. I contacted Puritan
something, the folks at make the bed and even spoke to one of the
technicians and he didn't know anything in fact he wanted me to send
a sound recording of the problem. I actually have a recording which
I'll try to attach to this posting, maybe not today but soon. The
noise is gotten worse the last two weeks so come Monday I guess I
will try to contact the manufacturer again. I assume this is only
natural when you own something like this and use it every day/night.
Things begin to wear out and maybe I've worn out the bed springs.
Hopefully there's a fix for this. Otherwise, to get any sleep I have
to lower the mattress all the way to the lowest position where this
springs snug into the bed frame. At this point the mattresses
entirely flat and I have a hard time breathing because my nose tends
to plug up. If I have to learn to sleep this way I will buy sure
don't want to I just think it's weird. Bottom line, I love this bed
when it works right, really it's part of the technological package
that allows me to be independent as much as I am I just love it noise
are no noise onto a workaround… Thanks Dianne, great purchase
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