Following my wife's leg amputation in February, we had to have a BUNCH of work done before the hospital would let me bring her home.
Bonus, I had to arrange for ALL of this between getting a cancer diagnosis and having surgery.
- Wheelchair ramp. Approved the bid on a Friday, ramp was installed the next Monday. All told, stellar work. Post install, needed one modification to keep from being fenced out of part of the property, they took care of that too.
Problem was their BILLING department. I paid 1/2 up front to get the job started, 1/2 on completion, but they failed to track the deposit and kept insisting I owed $5,900 that I did not. I kept the receipts and showed them, no, paid in full.
- Bathroom. This was actually TWO contractors. #1 pulled the bathtub and converted it to a walk in shower. #2 widened the bathroom door for wheelchair access, shortened a wall that was blocking access, pulled the double sink and vanity to install a smaller single sink, and all that required pulling and replacing the floor.
Everything went as expected. The only problem was they said not to use the shower for 24 hours and when I went to use it, they had forgotten to turn the water back on. ๐ They did come back and fix it the next morning.
- They wanted to saddle us with this 300 lb. behemoth wheelchair that we had no way of transporting. They said we couldn't use my existing wheelchair because it needed a "limb support" for the amputation and there was no way to mount it on my chair.
So step 1: Obtain limb support. Nobody locally had one. Special order only. So I bought one online for $500.
THEN I had to figure out how to attach it. Under the seat on mine there was an aluminum strut in exactly the right spot, so it was a matter of finding a local metal shop, having them weld an aluminum tube onto that strut, inserting the support into the tube and bolting it into place.
The guys at the metal shop were amazing, figured out the process, proof of concept worked for the hospital and my wife now has her own modified chair in purple and gold. LOL.
Both tubes have now been painted to match their respective chairs.