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From: Pandora.Nigh@f3.n157.z1.fidonet.org (Pandora Nigh)
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Subject: Sitting up
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Date: 1 Feb 91 02:54:15 GMT
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   Hi Adrienne, your techique and description for getting out of bed are 
really good. The only thing that I can add to that may be to have 
mounted near the head of the bed but parallel to it a grab bar or set a 
very sturdy and heavy chair that you can grab also. Another device that 
can be used if you have some decent upper torso and arm strength is a 
trapeze. This is a triangle of metal that hangs down from the ceiling or 
from a clamped L bar over the bed. You reach up grab the bottom bar of 
the triangle and pull yourself up.
                                  Pandora

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