by Gareth Williams | Nov 6, 2021 | Beginners Info, Safety
If you have had a posterior or lateral hip replacement, to find a good height for your chair seat you need to measure from the floor to the back of your knee, to the point that it bends, and make sure that your chair seat is at the least the same height from the...
by Gareth Williams | Nov 5, 2021 | Beginners Info, Daily Living Aids, Safety
If you are about to have posterior or lateral hip replacement surgery, you are probably rather intimidated by all the things that you have been told you cannot do for a while. Rest assured, though, my mom and I found lots of relatively inexpensive items which will...
by Gareth Williams | Nov 3, 2021 | Beginners Info, Daily Living Aids, Safety
Before you have your hip replacement, you, like my mom, will be told a whole slew of things that you are not allowed to do, if it is either a posterior, or a lateral hip replacement, and not many things if it is an anterior hip replacement. It all gets rather...
by Gareth Williams | Nov 2, 2021 | Bathroom Equipment, Beginners Info, Personal Hygiene, Safety
Having hip replacement surgery can be incredibly confusing with all the things you aren’t allowed to do, and for how long. My mom had a posterior hip replacement, and I think our state of confusion, or at least mine, in the beginning, made it all way more...
by Gareth Williams | Nov 1, 2021 | Bathroom Equipment, Beginners Info, Personal Hygiene, Safety
I think I can say, that after my mom’s hip replacement, at age 88, Mom and I were both a bit anxious about all the things that could go wrong. The specter of a “hip dislocation” hung over us, or maybe more me, in a way which was completely...
by Gareth Williams | Oct 28, 2021 | Bathroom Equipment, Beginners Info, Personal Hygiene, Safety
I will never forget how quickly things proceeded after my mom’s hip replacement. And I was pretty freaked out, when on the same day as her hip replacement surgery, they had my 88-year-old mom getting out of bed to take a few steps with the walker, and then going...
by Gareth Williams | Oct 21, 2021 | Bathroom Equipment, Beginners Info, Daily Living Aids, Personal Hygiene, Safety
I can still remember before, and after, my 88-year-old mom’s hip surgery being pretty worried about how she was going to sit and use the toilet, without causing herself any injury to the hip replacement. But rest assured, it all went well, as we simply followed...
by Gareth Williams | Sep 12, 2021 | Bathroom Equipment, Beginners Info, Safety
It is pretty normal to be rather worried about all the precautions you need to take after a hip replacement surgery, and in particular to be afraid of dislocating the new hip in the first few months. I know that in my 93 yr old mom’s case, we were given a lot of...
by Gareth Williams | Sep 11, 2021 | Bathroom Equipment, Beginners Info, Personal Hygiene, Safety
My mom, who is 92 years old, has been using some form of raised toilet seat now for almost 4 years, and I wouldn’t think of having her use a raised toilet seat, which was not either bolted to the toilet, such as a toilet seat riser, or on an independent frame...
by Gareth Williams | Aug 27, 2021 | Beginners Info, Cheap Equipment, Free Equipment, Used Equipment
Finding the money for elderly loved ones to pay for all the different, and seemingly endless, pieces of home medical equipment which can be needed can be difficult, stressful and very time-consuming. So, here is a guide of where and how you can find free home medical...
