jenniepepsi
Jul 1, 2009, 09:34 AM
My grandmother has MS, and is ALWAYS either in a wheel chair on her butt, or in bed on her but, or in her sling on her butt.
And we decided to get her into the pool (we are in Arizona, always a good time for swimming hehe) to take some pressure off her spine and rump.
So all that aside...
We took the hoyer part off the base...
It looks like this... I marked where it comes off
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/JenniPepsi/966748HOYER-LIFT-1.jpg
And we drilled a hole in the side of the pool deck to insert the hoyer into and use the sling to lower her into the water. (we tried to build a platform so that we wouldn't have to drill but it wouldn't support the weight)
I hope I explained well enough...
My queston is. Is there a law that says how DEEP the hole needs to be? I know when we did our ramps for her chair we had to do A lot of mesuring and slanting because it all had to be a specific grade.
The hole is deep enough to support her weight (150) and works well the way it is. But I want to make sure there are no legal guildlines
And we decided to get her into the pool (we are in Arizona, always a good time for swimming hehe) to take some pressure off her spine and rump.
So all that aside...
We took the hoyer part off the base...
It looks like this... I marked where it comes off
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/JenniPepsi/966748HOYER-LIFT-1.jpg
And we drilled a hole in the side of the pool deck to insert the hoyer into and use the sling to lower her into the water. (we tried to build a platform so that we wouldn't have to drill but it wouldn't support the weight)
I hope I explained well enough...
My queston is. Is there a law that says how DEEP the hole needs to be? I know when we did our ramps for her chair we had to do A lot of mesuring and slanting because it all had to be a specific grade.
The hole is deep enough to support her weight (150) and works well the way it is. But I want to make sure there are no legal guildlines