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Household Questions

Kitchen
Build your kitchen around you, we do not mean take a crowbar and start remodelling your kitchen, we mean, organise it to suit you, meaning a nice chair to sit on, place mugs glasses in normal reaching distance, take things that you use daily off the top shelf and place them on the counter.
Lounge
Make sure you always have a little table nearby you, if you need to put something down in a hurry because it is slipping, you do not want to still go around looking for the coffee table.
Bathroom
Slippery floors, are the worse, get anti slip mats, if you have a shower, SHOWER instead of bathing, No more lounging in the bath, the longer you are in hot water the more it aggravates your muscles, place helping bars in the shower, and a shower chair, place helping bars at the toilet. Some MG Patients, has problems of doing the most simplest things, in the bathroom, they can range from showering, shaving, brushing teeth and drying themselves, make sur eyour care taker or Family members is within screaming vanity to assist when needed.
Bedroom
Majority of MG Patients, cannot sleep laying down, most of them sleep upright, makes it easier to breath, arrange either a hospital bed for them, or LOTS of pillows
Passage
Keep passages clean, worse thing for a MG Patient is falling.
Stairs
Stairs are death avoid if possible, even if it requires you to walk around to the other side of your house.
Garden
Small bursts of gardening can be done, we advise getting a gardener, you can always sit on a chair, with a nice glass of cold water in your hand and delegate.
Clutter
Keep clutter and furniture to a minimum, the last thing you want is to be rescued from a pile of books.
Disability Equipment
We advise getting the Following, Walking Stick, Walker, Wheelchair and hospital bed.