Recliners are fine for relaxing or sometimes sleeping semi upright because of surgery or airway issues, but I am not a fan of lift chairs. As a physical therapist, I see too many people get lift chairs because it is becoming harder to come to stand from sitting. If you are completely unable to stand on your own without a boost, then lift chairs may be a viable choice of preserving independence. However, if you are starting to have difficulty with coming to stand, the struggle becomes important. The use it or lose it philosophy is real here. The effort required to stand is critical to maintaining the ability to stand. Once you relinquish the struggle, then you will get weaker that much more quickly. If you get to the point where you are unable to stand on your own, consider seeing a therapist first, if you are still debilitated enough then you can consider a lift chair assuming you are still able to ambulate and are interested in continuing to do so. Recliners fine, Lift chairs be very wary.

I totally understand what you're saying. Photography has become a passion in my later years and though I have several Nikon flagship DSLRs, I purchased this amazing Hasselblad CM strictly to further my education in this wonderful hobby with this beautiful vintage camera and first and foremost to have fun. It's also nice to own the camera that was on the Apollo mission to space. As I've said in a previous post, this Hasselblad is almost too beautiful to shoot. There's still so much to learn but I don't want to put a damper on this wonderful adventure by getting bogged down in technicalities, if that makes sense. My DSLRs will always be my go to cameras and I've pretty much come to the conclusion that I'm not going to develop film. I would rather spend that time learning exposure manipulation with film and outsource the developing. I might experiment with scanning but that will be the extent of it. I will say again that I can't thank my faithful Hedgehogers for ALWAYS responding with endless knowledge and help, ALWAYS.