Well on Good Friday 2012 life changed forever, my Father In-Law had a stroke while living in our house. He and his wife lived in our second floor apartment, He went to the local hospital and then did rehab at our local retirement home and after about two months we brought him home. In order to bring him home we had to build a wheel chair ramp to our back deck, put in a stair climber lift and other handicap bars in his apartment, He had to have a hospital bed, wheel chair, cane, walker, shower chair, all to help in his new daily life.

For about the first two years he was getting some strength back. He was able to walk up and down the hallway a few times with a cane or walker but always had someone follow with a wheel chair so he could stop and rest when needed. As he continued to lose mobility over the next few years we had to make more changes so that his wife, a short tiny lady, could take care of him with little help. Bob was not tall but a heavy man at about 300 pounds when he had his stroke.

Thus came the invention of the Walker-Go-Round, it was designed to help get him out of bed and into the wheel chair since he no longer had the ability to shuffle his feet to tun his body. Bob is still able to stand and sit sometimes better than others. Peggy, his wife was able to use this invention herself for quite a long time before needing help getting him out of bed because he couldn’t pull himself up with her help anymore.

At this point I’m sorry to say that his wife, Peggy, has passed away and now my wife and I help him with his daily life. The Walker-Go-Round saves our backs a lot of strain each day, We use the Walker-Go-Round day and night getting him in and out of bed.

My wife and I had to have visiting nurses come in to check on Bob when he had a sore on his leg and back. When they came I had to use the Walker-Go-Round to get him in and out of bed for them. We had two different nurses come at different times and both asked where did you get this? I could use that at work. All I could tell them is that I made it and was trying to patent it and I hoped they would see a lot more of them one day.

A care givers dream come true, the long needed Walker-Go-Round

J. Bryan Esworthy