All our finds, page 2
Where to Do Knee Replacement Exercises When Your Bed Is Too Soft
The bed sinks, the couch won't let you lie flat and the floor's hard to get up from. People who've had the surgery found somewhere else to do their homework.
How to Carry Food and Drinks With a Walker
Alone after a hip or knee replacement, with nobody to carry a plate and a cup for you. What people in that spot worked out, and what they argue over.
How Do You Keep Oxygen Tubing From Twisting?
On home oxygen, the hose knots itself while you get on with your day. Long-time concentrator users found a small part that stops most of it.
How to Keep Sheets off Your Feet in Bed
A sheet weighs nothing until it's lying on feet that hurt. People with neuropathy and ALS found a way to sleep under the covers without feeling them.
Can't Dry Off After a Shower? Skip the Towel
Your hands or your energy give out before the towel does. On Parkinson's, ALS and ME/CFS forums, the fix people pass round does the drying for you.
How to Close a Door in a Wheelchair
You've rolled through, and the knob has swung out of reach behind you. There's a safe way to pull the door shut, and it can cost next to nothing.
Gift Ideas for Someone With Limited Mobility
Fixes people with arthritis, one working hand or a wheelchair recommend to each other, with who each one suits and what to check before you order.
Gifts for Crafters Who Have Everything
The small, odd tools knitters, painters and stitchers swear by on the forums. Who each one suits, and the one to buy blind.
Gifts for Someone Who Is Bedridden
Gift ideas for someone stuck in bed, from the forums where people who lie down for hours compare notes. Who each suits, and what to ask before ordering.
Kettle for Arthritis Hands That You Don't Have to Lift
When a full kettle is too heavy to lift safely, tea gets risky or stops. The fix depends on whether it's the weight that beats you or the aim.
How to Open Pull-Tab Cans With Arthritis
The pull tab was meant to be the easy bit. When your fingers can't get under it, arthritis forums have a drawer fix that takes the pinch out of it.
Satin Pajamas or Satin Sheets for Parkinson's? Not Both
Rolling over in bed gets slow and hard with Parkinson's. The slippery fix people pass round on the forums comes with one rule that keeps you in the bed.
