Last week, a therapist and Shelby's Alta worker came out to assess our home for a lift system and overhead track system for Shelby. It was recommended she get a hospital bed to make her higher for us to dress her/transfer her, etc. but also to help with the lift system. Shelby was dreading it. She didn't want friends to make fun of her when they saw it, etc. I totally understood. I had lined up people who could decorate it, Steve and I had ideas, we were going to make it girlie and just her style.
Today I e-mailed her pediatrician who had been out on vacation and this afternoon, we got the call saying the bed was being delivered this afternoon!!
Steve and Shane dismantled her bed, we vacuumed and the bed delivery man arrived. Shelby's respite worker was over and she took Shelby to buy some new sheets. They just returned, the new sheets/comforter is on and Shelby LOVES her new bed!!! She can make the head &/or feet go up and down and up and down and she practiced and hasn't stopped smiling!!! After 20 minutes of up and down, I stopped her and she is now doing her 20 minutes of reading homework - yup, in bed, comfy as can be!!!
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