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davehultin
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Mar 04, 2020

Traveling with a tailbone injury

I'm looking for some creative ideas about how I can make this summer camping season enjoyable for my wife. She has a really sore tailbone and figures she has about 100 miles of traveling in one stretch before her tailbone injury becomes more than she can handle.

She's tried all the cushy seats with the notch cut out of it, but those aren't enough. She needs to be able to lay flat sometimes to take pressure off the tailbone. We're going to test-drive putting a twin mattress in the back of our Expedition, and if that's not too bumpy we could, perhaps, have a custom mattress made. However, I'm not too sure how the friendly law enforcement would feel about that.

Any other ideas to share?
  • davehultin wrote:
    She has a really sore tailbone

    My girlfriend fell during Christmas on some slippery steps and is still dealing with it. However, her comfort in our Dodge Ram is good, and she is beginning to heal. You mentioned that the pillows don't work. Try another one, another brand, another design. That is all I can suggest.