pmmjarrett
Not just tired..... RETIRED!!!
As many of you know, my FIL was involved in a near fatal auto accident on Jan 1 2011. He was ressusetated on scene after being cut out of his flipped mini van. He has 2 broken ribs, a small cut on his head and is having trouble with his pacemaker and blood pressure. He was also diagnosed with moderate dimentia when they were running tests on him to check for a cuncussion.
He is recovering and will be moving in with us when he is discharged. My wife, oldest daughter and SIL are with him in Norfolk, VA Sentara General while I am home in Autryville, NC taking care 3 dogs, my youngest daughter, my SIL birds, plants and making changes to the house to accomodate him.
I could use all the advice I can get for adapting a home for handicap living. He is still able to walk short distances but may need a wheel chair from time to time.
I finished painting and installing new carpet in his room. I don't know it carpet was the right thing to do but I don't want him slipping on laminate with socks on, on the way to the john in the middle of the night.
I need to bring the Twin bed out of the attic assemble it and get a new mattress and box spring for it. I plan to place it near the bathroom door in with the headboard at the wall so a person can get on each side of the bed and assist him if necessary.
I have a recliner in there as well as a foot stool, I think he may have trouble getting the foot portion of the recliner down if he pops it up.
There is a nice solid desk and a comfortable swivel desk chair with arm rests in there as well. I will be setting up a computer and installing an LCD TV and hooking up the box for the DirecTV in there too... That thing will be on SciFy or fishing shows 24/7. The big old 52" in that room won't stop scrolling, so it's coming out. Also going to hang some of his old pics I remember him having in his old house as well as make him something to hold some of his fishing equipment. As time and funds allow I will add a closet in a currently un-used void on the other side of the wall that has the bathroom entrance that I was going to use to make a huge master bath one day. Pretty much have a bathroom entrance on one side of the bed and a closet on the other.
I'm currently working on the bathroom fixing a weak spot in the floor and installing hand rails in the bath and next to the toilet. I will place a small hand rail on each side of the toilet and a long handrail horizontally just above the top of the bath tub as well as vertical or angled hand rails on each end of the tub.
I'm going to need to install railing and a gate on his porch as well as make wheelchair ramps for the house.
Here's his new room. It adjoins the master bedroom and a bathroom.
And a project I had been avoiding, fixing a soft spot in the batroom floor, right now waiting for the self leveling underlayment to dry so I can put the slate laminate down. What a pain to rip up old tile. Anyone know what is the correct product to use to paint that ugly, ugly, uuuuuuuuuuuugly pink tile with, beige would look sooooo much nicer, thinking about refinishing the porcelin tub too while I'm doing the tile.
He is recovering and will be moving in with us when he is discharged. My wife, oldest daughter and SIL are with him in Norfolk, VA Sentara General while I am home in Autryville, NC taking care 3 dogs, my youngest daughter, my SIL birds, plants and making changes to the house to accomodate him.
I could use all the advice I can get for adapting a home for handicap living. He is still able to walk short distances but may need a wheel chair from time to time.
I finished painting and installing new carpet in his room. I don't know it carpet was the right thing to do but I don't want him slipping on laminate with socks on, on the way to the john in the middle of the night.
I need to bring the Twin bed out of the attic assemble it and get a new mattress and box spring for it. I plan to place it near the bathroom door in with the headboard at the wall so a person can get on each side of the bed and assist him if necessary.
I have a recliner in there as well as a foot stool, I think he may have trouble getting the foot portion of the recliner down if he pops it up.
There is a nice solid desk and a comfortable swivel desk chair with arm rests in there as well. I will be setting up a computer and installing an LCD TV and hooking up the box for the DirecTV in there too... That thing will be on SciFy or fishing shows 24/7. The big old 52" in that room won't stop scrolling, so it's coming out. Also going to hang some of his old pics I remember him having in his old house as well as make him something to hold some of his fishing equipment. As time and funds allow I will add a closet in a currently un-used void on the other side of the wall that has the bathroom entrance that I was going to use to make a huge master bath one day. Pretty much have a bathroom entrance on one side of the bed and a closet on the other.
I'm currently working on the bathroom fixing a weak spot in the floor and installing hand rails in the bath and next to the toilet. I will place a small hand rail on each side of the toilet and a long handrail horizontally just above the top of the bath tub as well as vertical or angled hand rails on each end of the tub.
I'm going to need to install railing and a gate on his porch as well as make wheelchair ramps for the house.
Here's his new room. It adjoins the master bedroom and a bathroom.
And a project I had been avoiding, fixing a soft spot in the batroom floor, right now waiting for the self leveling underlayment to dry so I can put the slate laminate down. What a pain to rip up old tile. Anyone know what is the correct product to use to paint that ugly, ugly, uuuuuuuuuuuugly pink tile with, beige would look sooooo much nicer, thinking about refinishing the porcelin tub too while I'm doing the tile.