hospital bed in FW cabin? leaving tomorrow

[gcgjmom]

My Mom is a T3 complete para with fairly advanced parkinsons disease. She can't assist with transfers at all, so we use a hoyer lift. Since she can't do pressure changes and is uncomfortable in a regular bed, we are renting a hospital bed for our trip. I've spoken with special reservations several times, and they advised having the bed put in the living area of the cabin where the murphy bed would be if pulled down. They also said that the bedroom is too small to manuever a hoyer or a wheelchair, which is why they suggested the living area. I received a call from the room assigner at FW and she is questioning if the hospital bed will fit in the living area. Do any of you have any insight? We are renting from Care, and they said they've set them up there before. I'm trying not to worry, but we have a 10 hour drive tomorrow and I don't want to be surprised when we arrive. Thanks in advance for any advice.

 

[merryweather20]

I can't see where they'd have room to set it up in the back bed-room either (unless they took out both beds). If it was set up in the main living area, you would be blocking the couch, but the family could still sit at the table and chairs.

 

[Talking Hands]

I can't see where they'd have room to set it up in the back bed-room either (unless they took out both beds). If it was set up in the main living area, you would be blocking the couch, but the family could still sit at the table and chairs.

I've seen them remove the beds to put a hospital bed in. In that case you lose the ability to sleep 6 because they either take out the double or the twin bunk beds.

 

[gcgjmom]

Just thought I would update. When we arrived they had removed the double bed from the bedroom and put the hospital bed there despite having told both FW and the medical company to put it in the living room. There was definitely not room to move the hoyer in the bedroom, so I called them to move it. They were very nice and came out about 5 minutes later. We placed it against the wall where the murphy bed was and we could still access the couch. Everything turned out fine, and we had a good trip despite Mom's wheelchair malfunctioning in the MK. Nothing like pushing a few hundred pound power chair out of the park.

 

[mechurchlady]

Happy dancing that everything turned out ok. Now we know that a hospital bed can be wedged into the living room. Sorry about the broke down powerchair.
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Laurie