After much debate and phone calling companies and asking my online friends, I decided that the lift is going back to Shriners this week. My original thought was I was just going to purchase a different sling for the lift. I had one picked out that I wanted, and the lift it was designed for had a boom that was very similar to the one we have. Most of my friends thought it would work, but said I should call and make sure. So I called Liko (the sling manufacturer) and they said that they do not recommend that their slings be used with anyone else's lift (or vice versa) due to safety reasons.
OK, their slings and lifts are really expensive anyway (but nice!!) so my next thought was to call Invacare (the lift manufacturer) and ask what sling they could recommend that will fit our constraints that will work with our lift. They were RUDE and said they don't recommend products and said we should call a distributor. So then I called a distributor and THEY called Invacare and asked the same question and found out that they only recommend 4 slings with this lift, none of which have head support....I guess that explains why they ordered this particular sling for us.
So now, we are just waiting for the vaccine settlement money to come and we will use our out-of-pocket reimbursement to buy a lift asap when it gets here and then worry about getting reimbursed for that at the next court date. The money should literally be here any day now so it should not be long...but this is the federal government at work so who knows.
Anyway, Jackson got his new TLSO last week and this weekend we went out to purchase stickers to decorate it. He told me dinosaurs originally but he was not in the mood to help pick anything when we were at the store. He gave a smile to some monkey stickers though so I got those as well as the dinosaurs (but when he got home it turns out he really did want the dinosaurs). He gave a really big smile to the red letters for his name so we got those too.
He has not been tolerating his stander very well lately (he wants to stand, but has trouble once he is in it)so I tried him with the TLSO in the stander and he did a lot better. Next time he is going to be in his chair for a good stretch I am going to try the TLSO...maybe it will help with that too.
