In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Well, it seems my brother will be home tomorrow. They had to move and the place isn't set up to handle someone who was in major accident. He needs no stairs and the bathroom would need one hand rail. The bathtub anyways.
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My hearing aids have their own remote for volume control. Shows you how the technology has changed in just the two years that I have had them.
Have to go back on Wednesday next week to have them adjusted and my hearing checked again.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, it seems my brother will be home tomorrow. They had to move and the place isn't set up to handle someone who was in major accident. He needs no stairs and the bathroom would need one hand rail. The bathtub anyways.
Great news he's home.
Is the damage permanent, or will he recover? Might not need to make a bunch of possibly expensive alterations if it's just a temporary situation where he'd need some extra help with some things.
Then again, if that's the place they're planning on living for the rest of their lives it can't be a bad thing to have that stuff done ahead of time either.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I'll be damned...
I had that drive being scanned in the background for around a day and a half and it did in fact manage to find around 1,200 files. It's strange, because with typical MS/DOS/Windows formats, a search in either of the recovery programs seemed to come up with thousands of hits on other drives almost immediately, but still would take a few hours to complete. This being by far the largest drive I scanned by about 10 times, it took much longer, but it also didn't show any "found" files until the job was done.
It might be worth taking a peek at all of them. I do have an external drive with about 1/2TB free, so I could copy about half of it over to sift through and then do it again for the other half.
For years I only used that drive for movies and TV, but I seem to remember at the end I also used it to transfer files from different computers late in it's life. There may be some stuff on there that was on one of the hard drives I couldn't save.
I remember what happened to the NAS now too. It just crapped out one day. At the time, I had assumed that it had to be the hard drive failure was the likely scenario. After I couldn't re-install the strange partition via linux I thought that was the case. But then I did try it a few years later with a much smaller drive and got the partitions set up right on it (forgetting I even still had the original drive), but the unit itself was actually the thing that broke.
Going to figure that out, see what's on it, then replace 3 of my 4 hard drives in my computer with just this single one and pitch the rest.
I know to some that apparently read my posts in here but never join our discussions that this all sounds like wasting time on my part when I have bigger fish to fry. Maybe it is, but since I can't get help with the porch until my friend is available and I don't feel comfortable with jacking up and structural issues associated with an existing structure, all I can do at this point is continue to get rid of stuff and clean things up.
Cleaning up and organizing the digital hoard is just as good for the mind as any other decluttering of ones life.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Hey Brenda - I don't know how much of a mobility problem your brother has, but there are transfer chairs you can use to help get into and out of bathtubs, from a simple fixed chair that straddles the edge (and you swivel your butt on the chair to get your legs in and out), to mechanical chairs that do the moving for you. If he's having a hard time standing and keeping his balance, there are shower chairs you can use in the bathtub. And also, in general, plastic garbage bags are handy on any seat for swiveling around: like on car seats for getting in and out, and transfer chairs for swiveling your legs. Anyway, I just thought I'd pass this on as it comes from a years-long accumulation of information.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, it seems my brother will be home tomorrow. They had to move and the place isn't set up to handle someone who was in major accident. He needs no stairs and the bathroom would need one hand rail. The bathtub anyways.
Quote:FWIW my oldest sister replaced the bathtub with a curb-free walk-in shower in the same footprint, with no constructed wall, just a tension rod with shower curtain to maximize accessibility. It was extremely helpful, if your brother and family need something long-term.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Then again, if that's the place they're planning on living for the rest of their lives it can't be a bad thing to have that stuff done ahead of time either.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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lol...
File recovery is going great, although it's not anything I'd be interested in keeping yet. All the videos are in 720 quality, which was a requirement with the old tech I was working with. Thought it was funny to see old seasons of Archer, Warehouse 13, and even Firefly pop up. Strange that I've found at least one episode of Castle on there. I've never watched that show. Maybe my brother told me it was good and I got it but never got around to watching it before the drive took a crap.
Maybe if there are some hard to find movies on there I might keep them, but all the tv shows are just getting recycled. I'm hoping that I was right though and I had started to migrate some other non movie/tv show stuff on there too. There does seem to be a large collection of mp3 files that are recoverable, and I've since lost all that stuff years ago. Might be some good music to salvage if nothing else.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, it seems my brother will be home tomorrow. They had to move and the place isn't set up to handle someone who was in major accident. He needs no stairs and the bathroom would need one hand rail. The bathtub anyways.
Great news he's home.
Is the damage permanent, or will he recover? Might not need to make a bunch of possibly expensive alterations if it's just a temporary situation where he'd need some extra help with some things.
Then again, if that's the place they're planning on living for the rest of their lives it can't be a bad thing to have that stuff done ahead of time either.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
My bad. I meant he will be home on Thursday.
The place they are moving to has one step and any alterations they are probably doing can be removed when he no longer needs them. A bathtub railing even if installed can be removed.
Who knows how long they will be living there.
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Quote:Hey Brenda - I don't know how much of a mobility problem your brother has, but there are transfer chairs you can use to help get into and out of bathtubs, from a simple fixed chair that straddles the edge (and you swivel your butt on the chair to get your legs in and out), to mechanical chairs that do the moving for you. If he's having a hard time standing and keeping his balance, there are shower chairs you can use in the bathtub. And also, in general, plastic garbage bags are handy on any seat for swiveling around: like on car seats for getting in and out, and transfer chairs for swiveling your legs. Anyway, I just thought I'd pass this on as it comes from a years-long accumulation of information.
Originally posted by 1kiki:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, it seems my brother will be home tomorrow. They had to move and the place isn't set up to handle someone who was in major accident. He needs no stairs and the bathroom would need one hand rail. The bathtub anyways.
Hey Kiki. My mom had a bath chair before she died and you could move it in and out of the bathtub. So they are probably getting something like that I would think. And also he said that this new place has only 1 step down to the front door. Basement suite.
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That sounds really good! And btw thanks for keeping us updated on your brother.
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