26/04/2026
Three days before my father was due to move into a nursing home, I came across a statistic I couldnāt ignore.
31% of residents develop new pressure wounds within their first year.
I was sending him there because of his pressure wounds.
My dad is 77. For two years, heād been dealing with a recurring wound on his tailbone. It would healā¦ then reopen weeks later. Over and over again.
We tried everything.ļæ½
Nurses. Repositioning every 2 hours. Expensive āmedicalā cushions.
Nothing worked.
So I did what I thought was the only option ā I found a facility. Filled out the paperwork. Wrote the deposit.
But that night, something didnāt sit right.
I started digging deeper ā not guides or brochures, but actual research.
And thatās when I found what nobody had told me:
The problem wasnāt his skin.ļæ½
It wasnāt his age.ļæ½
It was what he was sitting on.
Every foam cushion ā no matter the price ā compresses over time.
And when it does, all the body weight concentrates on a few pressure points: tailbone, hips, lower back.
Blood flow gets restricted.ļæ½
Tissue breaks down.ļæ½
The wound comes back.
Again. And again.
I checked his cushion.
Completely flat.
Heād been sitting on something that was causing the problem we were trying to fix.
That night, I found a different type of cushion ā one using a honeycomb gel structure designed to redistribute pressure instead of absorbing it.
I ordered it immediately.
It arrived two days later.
The first thing he said when he sat down:ļæ½
āThat actually feels different.ā
Within days, the redness reduced.ļæ½
Within weeks, the wound closed.
That was 9 months ago.
It hasnāt come back.
Heās still at home. No facility. No constant pain. Just normal days again.
If youāre in the same situation, hereās what Iād suggest:
Press your hand into the cushion your loved one is using right now.
If you can feel the surface underneathā¦ itās not protecting them.
Because pressure isnāt about comfort.ļæ½
Itās about what happens underneath the surface.
The cushion that changed everything for us is linked below.
Try it before making a decision you canāt take back.
