Do you have a Christmas Menu?
On 28/12/2011 7:33 AM, Tiger Lily wrote:
> 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
>>
>
I just harvested my huge crop of tomatoes grown in a couple of those
hanging basket things well maybe huge is a slight exaggeration total of
3 golf ball size ones :-) Hoping for more success with the strawberries
this winter.
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RodS T2
Australia
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