Hi all,
When my mom was falling ill, I would sleep next to her on her king sized matrress. A few years have passed, and she’s stuck in a twin sized hospital bed. I sleep on the nearby sofa almost every night to keep track of her, but I think she would benefit from a king size mattress with me next to her again. The emotional comfort seems to do wonders for her. I go upstairs and sleep in my bed and we’re both miserable; she wants someone checking on her and I want to check on her.
I've looked on amazon and the website from our insurance. I’m willing to pay anything, but I can’t find a big bed. Does anyone remember a place they got a big hospital bed from?
What we did was buy an adjustable bed frame from Amazon.com for a couple hundred dollars and put a regular sized queen mattress on it. Although it doesn’t raise and lower, it serves our purpose with the head and feet raising. To slide my hubby to the wheelchair, which is slightly higher than the bed, we move him to sit on the foot section of the bed and then raise that section to the correct height! We also added a bed rail (had to jerry rig it a bit with zip ties to the bed frame, but it’s sturdy now). Works great, and there’s enough space on the bed for both of us to sleep!