This is the shower chair we use for Jonathan. It was gifted to us from Team Gleason (teamgleason.org). Showering a person with ALS is straight up terrifying at times. Before our roll in shower was built we used a tiny corner shower to shower Jonathan. We actually preferred the tiny shower because as Jonathan's balance was waining he could lean against any one of the walls for support. He did fall several times in the small shower and getting him out was an Olympic sport. Once again, if there are rewinds in heaven... Oscar winning drama/comedy.
Once the larger shower was built we started showering him in that bathroom, but with wide open spaces you have nothing to catch your fall, and like a friend with ALS once said, you are like a tree trunk going down. Jonathan cracked the floor tile with his head on one such shower day. (Scroll fast if open flesh wounds gross you out.)
And so getting a shower chair that Jonathan could sit safely in while we shower him was huge. Extremely huge. It was gifted to us from Team Gleason. It is a NUProdx Shower Chair. Here's a quick video about the chair:
I cannot begin to describe the good Team Gleason does in the lives of person's living with ALS. Steve Gleason, former NFL football player for the New Orleans Saints, was diagnosed with ALS in 2011. Since that time he has paved a road for person's with this disease unlike any other of our contemporaries. This man's works is absolutely unparalleled. If you want to do a good thing, donate to Team Gleason. Don't doubt your donation. Don't second guess your gift. The work of Team Gleason is intimately powerful in ministering to the needs of disabled people. Hats off to you Gleason Family.
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