Lioness ([info]elisem) wrote,
@ 2009-06-30 15:05:00
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I Has Bed!
Or I will have one, anyway. Went today, shopped, and bought something totally other than what I expected, but it was the right thing.

Darn those discounts. Darn them all to heck, she said, tongue firmly in cheek.

Simmons Beautyrest. On an adjustable bed. I can has relief from reflux, adjustability, and sitting up to watch interesting captioned thingies, if Juan brings the DVD player downstairs and if we find a nice cheap (secondhand?) television set.

It felt almost as good as the Good Bed! WIKTORY! And they will deliver it and set it up.

OK, next thing on the list, which is solving the insurmountable bathtub problem.

Surgery: two weeks from today. Whee!

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[info]weds
2009-06-30 08:12 pm UTC (link)
If you don't much need a tuner for that television and you'll be close enough to have something small, wee analogue CRTs with built-in DVD players go for wicked cheap right now. Especially branded ones meant for kids, if you can deal with, say, Hello Kitty branding for the recovery period.

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[info]elisem
2009-06-30 08:18 pm UTC (link)
Alas, I think the smallness would make the closed captioning not work. The television is going to be across the room from the bed, as rolling onto my side to watch is Not Permitted for quite some time, I believe.

(The lack of tuner might be a problem with captions as well. I have to go look at my research. Basically, they wrote the new HDTV television standards without requiring the hardware to handle closed captions... so a bunch of us who need them are totally hosed, depending on whether we can jury-rig things or not. But that's a whole 'nother rant.)

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[info]janetmiles
2009-06-30 08:30 pm UTC (link)
Basically, they wrote the new HDTV television standards without requiring the hardware to handle closed captions

Oh, for fleep's sake. I "sheesh" on your behalf.

On the other hand, BED! Go, you!

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[info]weds
2009-06-30 08:34 pm UTC (link)
I should have specified "digital tuner," 'cause there's still an analogue one in those nonHD CRTs and that would presumably still do for those R1 discs carrying captions in place of or alongside subtitles, or such as cable/satellite boxes, but yeah, moot if that would be too small. Apologies. :/

(And O RLY. o_O I'm caption-using girl increasingly as well; that is Needful Information. Thank you for mentioning it. We still use old-school non-HD TVs and have satellite kit -- there is no hope of getting local channels here in the sticks anyhow -- so the whole digital tuner changeover thing passed us by, and so I've been blithely "oh, hey, American TVs have built-in CC support!" since I got here.)

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[info]weds
2009-06-30 08:38 pm UTC (link)
(ahahahaaaaaaa, then you posted more stuff. I am the overeager dum.)

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[info]timprov
2009-06-30 08:42 pm UTC (link)
Basically, they wrote the new HDTV television standards without requiring the hardware to handle closed captions

I'm pretty sure this is only a problem with television. DVD players apply captions/subtitles to the picture before they send it to the TV.

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[info]elisem
2009-06-30 08:47 pm UTC (link)
There turns out to be a cabling issue. I'll go find the info and put it up, once I'm done with working... which I had better get to. Gotta earn a bed. Hee!

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[info]casacorona
2009-06-30 08:25 pm UTC (link)
Hurrah for the New Bed! And adjustable! That's going to be wonderful.

A TV, if you don't need something that can receive broadcast over the air, you can probably get a killer deal. Any place that still has analog sets is going to be practically giving them away.

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[info]elisem
2009-06-30 08:27 pm UTC (link)
Such is my hope. See next post for details and kibitzing and recommendations.

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[info]heyokish
2009-06-30 08:32 pm UTC (link)
hurrah for bed!

re: bathtub...not sure if you have a particularly odd tub, but, if not, you can get a solid, adjustable slatted board that sits across the bath (I've always got mine from the hospital). There's then a trick to get you into the bath: back to the bath, standing, then sit on the board, an inelegant shuffle backwards on the bum, then lift legs up and around (a helper is useful at this point) and then sit there under a spray shower or turn, and stand up to shower, or lower down to sit in tub. All that without ever breaking 90 degrees bend. Because getting into a tub when you can only stand on one leg? Not happening otherwise.

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[info]heyokish
2009-06-30 08:43 pm UTC (link)
(Oof. The occupational therapist people should show you this if you didn't already know it. Forgive me, always was the annoying one in class holding my hand up and going "me! me! i know!")

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[info]elisem
2009-06-30 08:49 pm UTC (link)
I was going to get a double tub transfer bench, which sits inside and outside the tub, and one slides over. However, I called the orthopedic nurse, and she said that my beloved clawfoot tub would require raising my leg too high, no matter what.

I think I have a solution, though. See the post I will put up shortly.... (Gotta work for a while first. Will post a bit later.)

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[info]aitchellsee
2009-07-01 02:06 am UTC (link)
Hmmmm (raising one or more fingers in the manner of SKZB at 4th St panels)

What about (she said) having some sort of wide and secure step OUTSIDE the clawfoot tub, so you could step up a little bit onto the "launch pad" and then not have so far to swing the leg over the side o' the tub, and then sit on the inner bench? I'm thinking of something looking a lot like the cross-the-tub board thingie in [info]heyokish's link just below, only it would be resting on the bathroom floor.

Though as you can see from the comments thereto, I'm all about the wading pool-small tub notion as well :-)

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[info]aitchellsee
2009-07-01 02:08 am UTC (link)
Also, do you have any friends with low or sunken tubs, or large stall showers, whom you could visit occasionally for the purpose of Lioness-Watering-Down-The-Back?

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[info]elisem
2009-06-30 08:56 pm UTC (link)
Posted!

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[info]heyokish
2009-06-30 10:21 pm UTC (link)
paddling pool and watering can is marvellous!

(But am still baffled by idea of too much bending of leg to get onto bench over tub for jug-pourings of shower, as I am a five-foot-nothing heyoka, and have done this in a huge big lion-pawed tub using one of these. hmm. hmm. Are you able to use less-rubbish leg to hook under very-rubbish leg? Using front of foot under ankle to support and left the leg weight? Again, sorry if too much "i will find SOLUTIONS".)

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[info]hagazusa
2009-07-01 07:34 am UTC (link)
Yay, bed!!!

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