What are they? My hand splint/brace, my foot brace/splint, my bottles (which I call jars) and the bedsheets folded under me. The gas bottles, actually I use 2 newer jars that are green and hard to see thru, and one from Jamaica hospital which is at least a year old.
They are useful because I can let my caretaker/ night nurse and wife Alice sleep during the night. If I fill up most of the jars, she empties them and scrubs them clean again.
The braces for the hand (older) and newer foot, I use at different times. I got the hand brace from Jamaica hospital and got the foot brace later, from a foot specialist. So 1 bottle and the left hand brace, that I use most nights, are from Jamaica hospital.
The foot brace, I wear on PT days when going to the PT. I can see the usefulness of them both, the hand brace straightening and strengthening my right hand and the foot brace straightening and strengthening my right foot. Or the OT will cut them off.
They better not!
I almost forgot the pinkish bowl, that I just call "bowl" & it's from Jamaica hospital as well. It's used if I don't make it to the bathroom or am nauseous. Urp, slop...
Now you know what is still useful now. Ovid said, "The vulgar crowd values their friends according to their usefulness". God bless you, Matt McCabe
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