I have been in this store before but not made any major purchases. Now I am in the position of being a senior with some medical conditions and disabilities, the usual set of miseries like diabetes & arthritis, trouble bending over, standing, & walking long distances, plus stuff nobody likes to mention, in my case, severe OAB.
(It was this last that forced me to retire early & made me a client of Sunnybrook's best urologist. I see him quarterly for Botox but not for wrinkles, to keep my OAB under some control. I will happily give my urologist's name to any Yelper in need who messages me. It's the least I can do!)
Anyway, I now find myself needing all kinds of home health care bed & bathroom safety devices plus things for back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, acid reflux, leg and foot pain plus diabetic neuropathy. Oh joy! My comprehensive employer paid health coverage covers none of these things & they can easily run you into the hundreds and 1000's of dollars!
So I gotta bite the bullet & buy all this stuff & it helps that the SDM staff are all very patient, friendly & customers don't sweat it if you interrupt the staff with questions about where everything is located. BTW I took photos of everything I will probably buy later on Thursday when it's Seniors Day & everything's 20% off (hint hint).
I had previously read on the Net that Dr. Ho's TENS & EMS devices for pain therapy and improving circulation had a good track record and his foot and leg pain therapy products were good not just for the pain but also calf cramps, knee pain, plantar fasciitis, reducing numbness and swelling (therefore helping both diabetic neuropathy & leg edema!)
I had also read that as a Father's Day feature, Dr. Ho's latest Foot and Leg Pain Therapy device was reduced $10 to $119 until June 18th. If you want to grab this bargain, hurry cause I took the second last one, Yelpers! If you want to know how well the product works, please message me :-)
Two more things you should know that distinguishes SDM Home Health Care from.the other medical supply stores: (1) You can get Optimum Points on everything you buy here which helps the expenses somewhat. (2) If you're over 65 (I'm not but hubby is) you get 20% off on Seniors' Day which is this Thursday when they're open late 8:30 am - 8:00 pm. Other weekdays they close at 6:00 pm and weekends they close at 5:00 pm. So Yelpers, in 2 days, check this store out!
SDM's prices compare favourably with some of the other medical supply stores in the GTA. They have one of the better organized informative websites of home health care retailers too. Apparently these retailers assume their clientele are not only physically disabled but mentally as well, or at least they assume they are not capable of searching and scrolling through a web site to choose products for purchase online.
This, Yelpers, is NOT one of my problems--I can power through everything from Amazon to Best Buy to Lands' End USA to every online custom T-shirt site ever & when it asks if I wanna scroll through 75 items on 18 pages, I'm game LOL. I am a Power User of online purchasing at this point ;-)
So I'd appreciate it if the 12 GTA ADP authorized vendors of mobility aids according to my VHA Occupational Therapist, would acknowledge it's the 21st Century and (1) get a web site for heaven's sake! (2) allow users the choice of examining and comparing for themselves their entire product line, instead of dumbing it down and offering to help and guide the potential purchaser by phone or in person only. I would rather NOT spend the gas and travel time going from Etobicoke to Vaughan to Thornhill to Scarborough to Markham just to find out if they actually have the product in stock, let alone at a competitive price.
BTW Shoppers Home Health Care is NOT on VHA's ADP authorized vendors' List though IMO it should be. There are two online only vendors I can recommend checking out as well: Age Comfort (which offers CARP 10% discount) and believe it or not amazon.ca.
I have seen such enormous variations in mobility aid prices from $20 to $60 to $80 to $100+ for exactly the same thing that I warn all Yelpers to comparison shop ferociously before buying & look for every member card & Seniors discount out there. You're going to be spending $100s of dollars on these items, for which your health insurance may or may not reimburse you. But keep every single bill, because you can probably claim most of them on next year's tax return! Just a gentle reminder! read more