On 12/26/2011 9:42 PM, Robert Miles wrote:
> On 12/24/2011 2:11 PM, Tiger Lily wrote:

>> 1. A 2 prong approach is needed. Physio Therapy to help you strengthen
>> the needed muscles to compensate where need be. Occupational Therapy for
>> work with Physio for ? trapeze lift devices to assist you, or a wheel
>> chair so you have brakes and can move from one garden bed to the next
>> (and this is where a good 30 min describing assistance devices occurred)
>
> The therapies were tried years ago. Didn't work enough to continue.
>
> What's a trapeze lift device?

sigh, sorry therapy didn't work for you

a trapeze lift device is a bar, hung from something very sturdy,
allowing you to grab the bar to assist in standing....
>
> I recovered from the stroke enough to walk slowly with a 4-point cane,
> but not enough to carry much of anything.

ok, so carry/lift is out of the question

>
>> 2. Many hospice facilities have raised gardens for their patients. Check
>> the designs they have, ask the folks using the gardens what they think
>> and ask the folk that work there what improvements/changes they would
>> like to see.
>
> The assisted living place here has a few raised flower beds, and little
> room for more beds. I find it hard to get transportation to any other
> similar places.

Those planter boxes Wendy spoke of are looking better and better.....

> Robert Miles
>