*Hey Akua,
Glad to hear you finally got some assistance and was able to get
your bed fixed. I've been trying to get a hospital bed with a trapeze
for transferring, as my shoulders that have been my legs for moving for
the last 20 years are worn out. It would be so much easier to grab the
bar and swing into bed than to have to hooch and schooch my body until I
get into position for the night. But since I can use my ARMS, I do not
qualify from what I've been told! If I couldn't use my arms, why would
I need a trapeze? It just gets crazier and crazier to try and get
anything medically necessary these days with politics and the economy as
it is, (unless you have private insurance, not Medicare) they keep
taking more and more money from the programs we need to live to pay for
the "war in Iraq", the "war on drugs", war on this and that, and to make
sure THE GOVERNMENT gets their yearly cost of living increases. I get
one each year, but they take it right back as my Medicare deductible
goes up equal to or greater than the increase! But I try to look on the
good side that I even have a bed, a roof over my head, food in the
cupboards, a loving family, and a few good friends....
Peace,
Bernie
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