Hi, Ardith...

 DS>  I saw a T-shirt once that noted "I'm here to save your
 DS>  butt, not kiss it"!!

 AH@>           Good one... [chuckle].

  I thought you'd like that one. :)

 DS>  To medical people, nudity means nothing to them. So, when
 DS>  they tell me to get naked, I used to reply "how fast??".

 AH@>           Uh-huh.  I'll ask if it's really necessary to remove xxx
 AH@> and/or warn them that it could take me awhile, but I don't object....
 AH@> :-)

  I'd rather go ahead and get totally nude before the procedure, then
for them to stop so I could remove a piece of clothing. 

 AH@>           We have similar problems WRT our daughter... no, she can't
 AH@> "just hop up" onto the examining table.  When the patient arrives with
 AH@> a cane, a walker, or a wheelchair you might think they'd have a clue.

  Reminds me of the time where the nurse was asking for a stool sample, yet
they hadn't fed me in 3 days, because they thought they'd have to do an
appendectomy...if only she had read the chart (sigh!).

 AH@> Evidently my assignment is to make clear to others what our needs
 AH@> are....  :-)

  And, yet...even with an explanation, as clear as you can make it, they
still have the "deer in the headlights" look on their faces. Go figure.

 AH@>           I know many people who use one or another, depending on how
 AH@> far they are going.  If you have difficulty getting up onto an
 AH@> examining table & you're concerned about falling I think you'd be a lot
 AH@> happier with a power chair than with a scooter.  I'll gladly share with
 AH@> you the various reasons we decided the former was preferable in our
 AH@> daughter's case at such time as the bean counters would like you to use
 AH@> a "shoprider" because the $$$ is considerably less.  ;-)

  My late wife, Janice, had a scooter, that our dachshund loved to ride on.
She let me try working with it once, and I nearly wrecked it!! That was the
end of that!! I've used the manual chairs at times over the years, and they
really are a workout!!

Daryl

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