No other answer was immediately forthcoming. Alyssa slipped a canvas transfer sling under his body and secured it surely around his thighs. On the ceiling was an electric hoist on a sliding track, designed to transfer Todd from bed to bath to wheelchair. Four chains descended from it, and Alyssa quickly hooked these to the corners of the sling. Then, with a touch of the controls, he was raised into the air, moved across the room and above the big king-size waterbed. Briana positioned a large, wedge-shaped head-and-shoulders pillow at the headboard, and then the lift’s electric motor lowered him down.
Soon Todd was lying high up in the center of the bed, propped up on cushions and looking at himself in the big wall mirror to his immediate right. He was much more at ease now, yet still his
