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Injury/Arthritis
Thought your
camping days were over?
Tired of sleeping
on the hard ground?
Forget about restless nights, tossing
and turning on an uncomfortable sleeping
pad.
LETTERS
Jon and his wife thought that their
camping days were over until they discovered
the Explorer Ultralight!
Photo and letter from Jon Friedrichs.
Dear Tom, Ann & Hennessy Staff,
You guys are awesome, hands down!
I want to to thank you so very much
for taking care of the special needs
of my wife and I insuch a timely manner...Now
we have two of the Explorer models
which allow us easier entry and egress.
As we discussed, both my wife and
I are disabled; me with two severe
back injuries requiring five surgeries
and leaving me with excruciating chronic
back pain, and my wife with the disorder
of fibromyalgia, a nerve disease similar
to touching a hotwire. Anyways we
thought that our backpacking days
were through until we were turned
onto your hammocks by a fellow REI
member.
At first I scoffed, then I tried
out your Explorer Ultralight Asym.
IT WAS WONDERFUL!!! I have never slept
so well in the outdoors! It was what
I needed to continue my love of being
outdoors and hiking once again, because
I could look forward to pain-free
rest, something that has been absent
in my life for the past eight years.
In fact, I sleep so comfortably and
soundly in my hammock that I have
put up eyebolts in the family room
walls, as well as our outdoor patio
supports,to where I can hang my hammock
and where I end up sleeping every
night when I can no longer take sleeping
in our conventional bed(a top of the
line select comfort air bed). When
I now wake up each morning my backache
is absent until I've been upright
for several hours.
Because of my relief and success
in the outdoors, my wife has been
enticed to get "out there"
with me, and after two trips of several
days duration each, she is thrilled
at being able to enjoy backpacking
with me once again!
Jon Friedrichs
Hey Tom
Just got back from a 10 day elk/bowhunting trip in Colorado...slept in
my HH every night. It was wonderful, back felt great. I just had back
surgery a few months ago, the first 2 days of the trip I was taking
NSAID's each day and using a stick-on pain patch...after the second
night in my HH I never used the patches or pain pills the rest of the
trip. Thanks for a great product...I plan on using it this deer season
on my lease in Georgia
...my two elk hunting buddies laughed when I first set my HH up...the next
day I caught one of them taking a nap in it...by the end of the trip they
were both writing down the website info...once the weather cools here in
Orlando I will be sleeping in it outside my home...wife thinks I'm nuts,
but it sure makes my back feel great...thanks again for a great product...
Chuck
The Hennessy Hammock is so comfortable
that many back-pain sufferers use
them at home for resting without discomfort.
Pressure is taken off the joints as
you float off to sleep many
people tell us their hammock is even
more comfortable than their expensive
mattress at home.
In addition, the easy-enter system
allows you to settle yourself without
leaping over the side of the hammock,
wary of the dangers of flipping over
or falling out. Climbing into the
hammock is as easy as sitting in a
chair and exiting is equally convenient..
No more painful pressure points,
no more sore shoulders, hips, elbows,
bone spurs, arthritis pain. Several
seniors have even encouraged us to
write articles for health magazines
and claim that the Hennessy Hammock
is "the answer" to getting
older people back on the trail. We
have also been totally amazed by the
response from people who had stopped
camping because of injuries caused
by automobile accidents, operations,
work-related damage and cumulative
wear and tear.
Dear Tom and Ann
I am writing you, as I imagine hordes
of other people have, to thank you
for an incredible product.
I can honestly say that I wake
up with less back pain/stiffness in
your hammock than I do in my bed at
home. The lightness and convenience
make bicycle touring, even for day
trips, such a pleasure that I am thinking
of authoring a book called "Cool
places to Sleep".
All the Best Phil
I'm a 42 year old avid backpacker
who four years ago injured my back
to the extent that each morning I
spend about twenty min. getting out
of bed, which consists of a lot of
cussing, moaning, and a lot of slow
straightening. Two weeks ago I spent
my first night in a Hennessy ultralite
backpacker A-sym. hammock. To my great
surprise I awake in the morning able
to stand with no pain actually
able to stand straight for the first
time in four years. I'm not saying
that it healed me because 30 min.
later my back was at it again. Getting
up in the morning was wonderful. I
just wanted to thank you. "Bandit"
"Thank you very much!
I'm 45 rears old and have camped
more in the last 2 years with my children
than I have in the prior 43. Until
now I could never get much sleep.
I've tried air mattresses (always
go flat at 4 AM), pads, and robbed
our deck lounge of its cushion, and
I still woke uncomfortably many times
with a back ache. I did have some
limited success popping a couple Tylenol
PM to get through the night, but not
any more. Now I sleep as well
or better than I do in my own bed
with the Hennessy Hammock. I find
it exceptionally well designed. I
really enjoy camping as much or more
than my kids. Better yet, I don't
have to share a tent with a wet dog
anymore. Although I swear he has been
eyeing my hammock with envy!"
J.C.
"I am a sixty-four-year-old,
six-feet-two-inch two-hundred-twenty-pound
lunatic, with arthritis which has
been hammering on me for years. Roughly,
two years ago, I stopped sleeping
in a conventional flat-bed and started
sleeping in a recliner, because of
the pain in my right knee, which was
aggravated horribly by the flat bed.
I've just gotten pretty much used
to the fact that a night's sleep consisted
of several segments of fitful sleep,
interspersed with jolts of hellish,
awakening, pain. Thanks to my qualification
as "lunatic", and your genius,
that all appears to be a thing of
the past.
My life-long best friend and fly
fishing buddy, is retiring in March.
The two of us have decided that we
aren't ready for the AARP crowd, and
are outfitting ourselves for some
serious back-country, backpacking/fishing
expeditions - the first being a ten-day
hump into the high-country of North
Carolina's Great Smokey Mountains.
I wasn't worried about the backpacking
and climbing, since activity keeps
the arthritis at bay - but - I
was worried about sleeping on the
ground, and trying to "unfold"
all 6'-2" of me in the mornings,
without screaming, after smidgens
of sleep on roots, rocks and a sliding
sleeping bag, so I started doing some
serious research into "other"
modes of sleeping systems. That's
when I discovered HENNESSY HAMMOCKS!
I skeptically ordered your Explorer
Deluxe A-sym, and when it arrived,
I went over every stitch, hem and
attachment, with the critical eyes
which have come from many years in
Quality Assurance. I didn't know whether
to sleep in it, or put it on display.
It is the absolute epitome of outstanding
design and immaculate craftsmanship.
You should be proud!
I hurried to the nearest hardware
store, purchased a pair of beefy screw
hooks; two large screw eyes; returned
home; installed these into the chestnut
logs of my 12'x16', fly tying/rod-building
room and shortly had my Explorer stretched
and strung. I practically had to beat
my wife and daughter off with a stick
when they got into it. They didn't
want to get out.
Now, the question is - did I like
it? Tom - that night - for the first
time, in many years - I slept for
six, straight hours, before getting
up to make a head-call. Getting out,
and back in (even in the dark) was
so easy, I marveled at how quickly,
and without struggle, I was back into
the warm cocoon. I slept for two more
hours, that morning, and when I finally
did crawl out, it was after much toying
with the idea of just stayng there
all day. I finally slid out - and
walked away - no pain; no groaning;
no miserable unbending of gnarled
joints! I closed my radiators,
opened the windows wide, (it was twelve
(12) degrees F, here in Central PA)(I
told you I'm a lunatic) threw my sleeping
bag onto my fleece blanket, and crawled
in at 2200 hrs. I didn't wake up
until 0600, this morning. No aches;
no pains; no sore knee, no cold back.
I didn't want to get up, but Nature
called, strongly, and, rather than
go back, I wanted to let you know
just how grateful I am for the brilliance
you put into this hammock. It may
not be the RX for every old #@%$ with
a bad knee and sore joints, but she
works a whole lot better than Celebrex
for me...Gene DellingerDear Tom,
I've owned my HH for about 3 years
and have converted numerous people
to "hanging-out," but
have not until recently had the opportunity to use it for more than a long
weekend here or there. I finally
got the chance to use my HH,
along w/ several of my
converted friends, on a week-long Boundary Waters trip. I want to say that
I've not slept better in the
BWCA in the 20+ years that I've
been going there. The
HH proved what I suspected: a great night's sleep in the hammock makes everyday
better. I have always found myself looking forward to the end of a trip about
4 days into it: the roots and rocks always disrupted my sleep and made my bad-back
sore. With my HH, I never wanted the trip to end. But wait, there's more. I
bought a second HH for my 64
year old father to use. He'd
not slept in a hammock since
his midshipman/Navy days. He was skeptical about the trip as he has joint issues
from his years of jogging and hard use activities - but after much cajoling,
agreed to go along with us. After the trip I asked what his thoughts were and
was surprised to here that he thought it was the best camping trip he'd gone
on and was already looking forward to doing it again. When I asked him what
made the difference? You guessed
it: you hammock. Thanks for extending
my dad's camping
years!
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