Bean bag chair

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Kurt_Vic

Hi everyone,

my wife has an array of conditions stemming from talipes (club foot) it’s causing her loads of pain recently and walking is causing pain in her hips, back and leg.

this pain stays with her now when she sits so she can’t get comfortable without pressure or pain somewhere. 

I want to get her a bean bag chair but they are either comically small or comically expensive. 

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions for bean bag chairs or similar seating that won’t cause pressure. I’ve tried charity shops but I have not found any. 

Thank you 

newborn

Ouch, my sympathy for your wife.   Look around local online sites for your freecycle, or nextdoor, or similar, and ask. One possibility is putting a bean bag onto another seat, because if her joints are already annoyed, they won't want her getting up from an old fashioned bean bag on the ground!

But do you have to have a bean bag, because for one thing it is simply a cloth container for polystyrene packing balls, so you might make your own.

For another thing, you might be able to improvise  a thick natural sheepskin or two on top of a 'throne' of wheelchair cushions (or sofa cushions)  Wheelchair users or bed-fast patients with pressure sores find sheepskin is bliss. The advantage of that if you can contrive it,  is that it is what hospitals have done for centuries and it won't 'off-gas' hidden fumes into your house, which plastic does.