Transfer from chair to bed video
Brain injury is a very very hard thing to be rehabilitated from. I have made a very short video of Anita transferring from an electric wheelchair to the bed. If you click on the thumbnail it should open or download to your hard drive. This is in her room at Rayners hedge and will hopefully be a useful record of her progress for the future. It may not look much to most people out there who take things for granted but this is were she is at after many, many hours of physio and over 14 months of hospital. As you can see from the video Anita has more power and strength to make this transfer but still lacks in the area of control.
It’s much easier for her to complete this transfer at RH because the bed is adjustable and the mattress is very hard, at home we need to change the mattress. Because her left side is weak she has to make the transfer always to her right. At the moment she is still in transition from the stage that someone needs to keep a hand on her and the stage she can just be monitored hands-free. To get to that stage alone is still a way to go. She will need much more control, I would be still very worried at the moment that she would fall and injure herself. We could do without any blows to the head or broken bones that would set her back.
Yes Anita wants to walk again but right now this transfer is an important step to some independence! As it stands she needs someone to supervise these transfers which means lots of carers etc.