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Following my wife's leg amputation in February, we had to have a BUNCH of work done before the hospital would let me bring her home.
Bonus, I had to arrange for ALL of this between getting a cancer diagnosis and having surgery.
Problem was their BILLING department. I paid 1/2 up front to get the job started, 1/2 on completion, but they failed to track the deposit and kept insisting I owed $5,900 that I did not. I kept the receipts and showed them, no, paid in full.
Everything went as expected. The only problem was they said not to use the shower for 24 hours and when I went to use it, they had forgotten to turn the water back on. ๐ They did come back and fix it the next morning.
So step 1: Obtain limb support. Nobody locally had one. Special order only. So I bought one online for $500.
THEN I had to figure out how to attach it. Under the seat on mine there was an aluminum strut in exactly the right spot, so it was a matter of finding a local metal shop, having them weld an aluminum tube onto that strut, inserting the support into the tube and bolting it into place.
The guys at the metal shop were amazing, figured out the process, proof of concept worked for the hospital and my wife now has her own modified chair in purple and gold. LOL.
Both tubes have now been painted to match their respective chairs.
I'm assuming the hospital didn't let her out for accessibility reasons, other then showing them the wheel chair, did they ask for pictures or videos of the accessibility modifications or did they come to your house and inspect it?
Also fuck cancer. Must have been tough having to do all of this and getting that diagnosis.
Photos and seeing the chair in person were enough. There were no actual inspections until we got her home.
And yeah, dealing with all that + cancer sucked. At one point we were both actually in the same hospital at the same time. I went in for my surgery on 2/19 and was in until 2/23. She was in 1/26 to 3/5.