Wound vacs are pretty small and light now, they fit in a small shoulder bag and not much weight - but they dangle around if carried that way and bump into stuff. Our solution was the walker with the basket... Mostly George hated to be tethered to it all the time. He is happy to be rid of it. It worked like a charm though.
We had 3 operations - two major - and 5 stays in ICU. First the removal of the bladder and prostate - and that was actually the easiest, the robotic, laprascopic operation left hardly a mark and he recouped very fast at first, was zooming around in the hospital halls after a couple days. But then he got very nauseous and they put a tube down his nose and had to try and try again because it wouldn't go down - so he ended up aspirating a ton of food and was in ICU with pneumonia for a few days. That almost killed him. Then they realized that nothing was going down to the colon and his belly swelled up like he was highly pregnant. Eventually they did the second major operation, which left him with the entire belly cut wide open. That was stapled shut at first, but got infected deep inside and so the third operation - removing bad tissue and closing the musculature up again. That's when they started the wound vac... And finally,when allowed to eat after weeks, he aspirated food again and had pneumonia again. Lots of ICU stays - and very scary, all of it.
When all physical issues were taken care of we left. He was simply too despondend to recover there. Thank god one of the surgeons agreed with me and issued walking papers - otherwise we would have been stuck there because the insurance would not have paid without walking papers.
But the nightmare is over, he is returning step by step to his normal life now. Answers the door, lets the dogs out, even did his laundry the other day. We go shopping together - I fetch a shopping cart and he gets out of the car and walks the cart into the store, then uses one of these scooters.
I am tickled pink everytime he does something new. We can both see normalcy returning, and it feels so good.