CatLady1
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Bettifloss can tell you exactly what she bought, buy I'm sleeping in a lift chair / electric recliner that almost goes flat (head is still raised slightly). The position sort of simulates a hospital bed with the head up. To me, it's much easier to fall asleep in that position than to lie flat (which I tried the first two nights, and about 3 a.m. the 2nd night, sat up in bed and declared this was a pain in the *** and I needed to sleep some other way. I went out to the recliner and went back to sleep.)
Back in the fall, when I knew I was having surgery, hubby decided I needed a new recliner, so we spent a day shopping, looking at what was available. Me being the fussy one, I didn't want a monstrous piece of furniture in the living room, or a fake leather fabric, etc etc. (He would have bought the first thing we saw and gone back home). Anyway, I found a catnapper brand chair, it helps raise you up to get up, lays back like a recliner - with the press of a button. When I told my hospital nurse I had the chair, her reaction: "Oh, you don't want that. It will make you lazy!" ha ha. The sleeping part is fabulous as for head elevation, etc. As for getting up without breaking 90ยบ - it really helps with that (used it a lot the first 4 days) then find myself starting this week just putting the chair back to sitting position and getting up without raising it.)
Bettifloss can tell you exactly what she bought, buy I'm sleeping in a lift chair / electric recliner that almost goes flat (head is still raised slightly). The position sort of simulates a hospital bed with the head up. To me, it's much easier to fall asleep in that position than to lie flat (which I tried the first two nights, and about 3 a.m. the 2nd night, sat up in bed and declared this was a pain in the *** and I needed to sleep some other way. I went out to the recliner and went back to sleep.)
Back in the fall, when I knew I was having surgery, hubby decided I needed a new recliner, so we spent a day shopping, looking at what was available. Me being the fussy one, I didn't want a monstrous piece of furniture in the living room, or a fake leather fabric, etc etc. (He would have bought the first thing we saw and gone back home). Anyway, I found a catnapper brand chair, it helps raise you up to get up, lays back like a recliner - with the press of a button. When I told my hospital nurse I had the chair, her reaction: "Oh, you don't want that. It will make you lazy!" ha ha. The sleeping part is fabulous as for head elevation, etc. As for getting up without breaking 90ยบ - it really helps with that (used it a lot the first 4 days) then find myself starting this week just putting the chair back to sitting position and getting up without raising it.)
Boy, we sure find that out post THR, don't we? 
I have yet to wear normal clothes (except the day before the bandage came off - and that day my pants felt tight on the incision (and now I know it's due to the swelling in the area - not my weight, or at least I hope that what it is, because as soon as those pants were removed, I felt normal again). The first day without the bandage, the incision felt 'sticky' - like it could stick to my panties, but since then I've not really noticed it ( I'm not wearing 'armpit underwear" - as I call Bridge's attire...
