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While managing my mother’s care through her 9 year struggle with Alzheimer’s and other medical conditions, her skin became tissue paper thin and incredibly fragile. When she bumped her shin against a round table leg, the resulting 4 inch long skin tear landed her at a New York City emergency room for 36 hours with a tag team of attending doctors, nurses, and family members! My mother’s inability to comprehend what was happening made the situation much more complicated , we never left her side. Throughout this unbelievable and frightening ordeal I could only think of how to protect my mother from future accidents. Her newly healed skin would be at an even higher risk for injury. We already had 24/7 live in health aides (they don’t have eyes in back of their heads) I was determined to never let this happen again, so for added security I baby bumpered her apartment until I could find a protective solution.

I shopped medical supply stores and searched the internet, but the only products I found were compression, clearly not what we needed. I shopped for arm and leg warmers(all were bulky wool…not good) and sporting goods stores looking for any form of leg protection. Friends would suggest I cut up socks to make sleeves, creative idea, but they unravel and do not stay in place, what a mess! Our visiting nurse even said the only option was to keep her wrapped in gauze…seriously?