I can definitely relate to the sliding down to the sliding down. My PCA came in one morning and just stood by the door and laughed because only my head was on the upper part. She took a picture and I looked somewhat like a munchkin. But it was a annoying to say the least. Finally we are going to get some summer. On Monday the high for Reno at our place was 57°and today it is supposed to be 89°with 98° predicted for Sunday. Crazy weather. Joan
-----Original Message----- From: greg [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 10:08 AM To: Dana Wray Cc: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] bed Medicare paid for the one I got. I have one of those Medicare replacement programs. Secure horizons. They covered 80%, but the other 20% is $500 a month. The home version is the size of a hospital bed, but only the lower half has the sand. The top half is just the circulating air mattress. But it's badly designed the top half is like 6 inches taller than the bottom half. So you are constantly sliding down. And it is very hard for someone to slide you back up. I can only assume that it has to be that way to take pressure off your butt. So maybe it's a good design for pressure relief but a bad design for the patient. And you would think by now they could make this thing a bit quieter. And you can't tuck the sheets in, so they slip a lot. And you can use a top she, but if anything seeps through and gets on the bed cover you have to call the bed company to come out and clean it. the one good thing I can say about them is when the bed stopped working this weekend they were out within two hours to fix it. Greg > That bad in the hospital during my long hospitalization and after my > surgery. If I had trouble using my Dragon also I did not know you > could get them at home I had mine at KU medical center Medicare is > primary and Blue Cross is secondary so I'm sure Medicare would not pay > for the bed at home? > My fixator put a hole in the mattress twice. > Dana > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 21, 2013, at 8:48 PM, greg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> My insurance covered the Clinatron bed. At least 80% of it anyway. I >> got a pressure sore on my butt again, it's the biggest
