Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Very best to her. Hope things look up a bit soon. Peter On 22/09/2017 05:04, Alan Magayne-Roshak wrote: > I'd really like to meet Lluis and others, and see the show, but I'm afraid > that my wife's worsening medical problems make my going to Chicago > impractical. > She is basically bed-ridden, being heavy, with spinal stenosis plus knee > and other problems. Kathryn can use a walker to get from the bedroom to > the bathroom, but it takes her about a minute to go the ten feet. When she > needs to get to a medical appointment, she can just barely make it down the > five steps from our kitchen to the back door, and it's harder going up > afterward. We bought our own bariatric wheelchair so she doesn't have to > walk to the garage or at the clinic (I'm building up MY muscles - each time > we go out I have to lift the chair six times). > > Kat has had a number of falls over the last few years, where I had to call > 911 for a lift assist, since she is too heavy for me to handle, so I'm not > comfortable being gone too long, or being too far away. I'm her only > caregiver - we never had kids, my brother died four years ago, and my > mother is 97. > > She has appointments on both the 5th and 6th. > > I wish everyone a grand time. > -- =========================================================== Dr Peter Dzwig