Hi Melody:

In hospitals and nursing homes, lifts of various kinds are used to lift patients from wheelchair to bed, bed to wheelchair, etc. Nurses and aides do not lift patients without a machine. We used a Hoyer lift at home ourselves, and it made things very easy. There must be two people using the lift in hospitals and nursing homes, for safety (and insurance) reasons, but it can easily used by just one person, because I did it with ease and no problems. Loved that Hoyer lift! A "sling" is placed around the person, and then the sling fastened to the lift.

I do hope that Alan can have that muscle operation to solve his perpetual problem with that foot ulcer. That has gone on much too long!

Shirley H.