The shower chair finally came! This has seemed like a big improvement in safety, because of my wife’s tendency to lean backward and to the sides. It has a commode feature (those parts are elsewhere) with an open padded seat which makes for easier, more complete cleansing. It is very lightweight aluminum with plastic wheels, perhaps not the most durable, but we’ll see. We put it together in fewer than five minutes using the built-in tubular locking pins! Clever design.
Her PCP actually put in a referral for the Durable Medical Equipment (DME) weeks ago, but the approval was for a commode chair; I suppose that even if the doctor ordered the right thing, the clerk choices of selections was limited. Anyway those don’t usually have wheels, and aren’t meant for showers. The HMO has a primary vendor who suggested I look at their catalog online, but nothing matched what we wanted. There was some automatic coverage through them, though I doubt 100%.
It’s a bit tiresome (to me) how different online stores work with different manufacturers to have insipid variations in similar products. A national drug store chain with an online site had one that looked like it might work, displaying “ships in 1 day!” It may have, but took a week to get here. About $150. Later, I had to make several phone calls, download an online form, attach the receipt and mail it to another state to see if we’ll get any kind of reimbursement. You know the drill, it’s only the 21st century!
The picture makes it seem like it fills the whole space, but it was easy to work around, and move when necessary, and seems easy to clean.
