Lesson learned today...

One thing: As part of their acute rehab, people with spinal cord injury are specifically taught how to teach and monitor caregivers in their specific areas of care. If you see one admitted to a hospital and he tells you he does it this way, you should do it that way unless somebody with good SCI experience tells you (and him) that it's dangerous, and why. Exception: anything normally requiring sterile technique, because there are more infectious agents in hospitals and many things we do with sterile tech in hospitals are done with clean technique at home.