Well, just had the usual major pre bed clean up.
The problem is, my OH's mobility is now so poor and he has so little control that by the time he gets up to transfer from chair to commode it's too late. We have a 'Turner' and he can pull himself upright pretty well but to go from upright to sitting is a major difficulty, he just hasn't got the confidence to lower himself down. The whole process can take 10 to 15 minutes with him nearly getting there and then pulling himself up again and having to start over. Then often he's awake at 0600 obsessively using his bottle, and trying to get out of bed although he has almost no control over unrinating and doesn't know why he's trying to get up.
I'm getting exhausted and would welcome any suggestions. Don't see how having carers in would help as they wouldn't be here this time of night. He sleeps a lot during the day and only seems to wake up towards evening so we tend to be quite late to bed then the clean up and actually getting him into bed takes a minimum of an hour, tonight at least an hour and a half.
The problem is, my OH's mobility is now so poor and he has so little control that by the time he gets up to transfer from chair to commode it's too late. We have a 'Turner' and he can pull himself upright pretty well but to go from upright to sitting is a major difficulty, he just hasn't got the confidence to lower himself down. The whole process can take 10 to 15 minutes with him nearly getting there and then pulling himself up again and having to start over. Then often he's awake at 0600 obsessively using his bottle, and trying to get out of bed although he has almost no control over unrinating and doesn't know why he's trying to get up.
I'm getting exhausted and would welcome any suggestions. Don't see how having carers in would help as they wouldn't be here this time of night. He sleeps a lot during the day and only seems to wake up towards evening so we tend to be quite late to bed then the clean up and actually getting him into bed takes a minimum of an hour, tonight at least an hour and a half.