Unanticipated Controversy

Fourteen years ago, my wife and I purchased an above ground pool along with a Hot Springs Prodigy Spa or Hot Tub...  a year or so later, I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's "B" Cell Lymphoma and a year or so after that, I experienced a rather serious heart attack that caused the surgeons to want to perform a triple bypass...  a second recommendation and I was left with the option of installing 5 stents instead.  A couple of years after that, I was diagnosed with Melanoma that later moved to my groin and and a sentinel biopsy was perform resulting in the removal of lymph nodes and my left leg experience lymphedema...

All of these conditions are not necessarily conducive to spending time in a Hot Tub, let alone spending in a Hot Tub several times a week...  and yet, that is exactly what I have been doing for the last 14 years.  Oddly enough, my time in the hot tub does not seem to be adversely effecting any of my conditions...  at least not yet...   but, with that said, I am not spending as much time in the hot tub as I used to spend.  And, when the weather gets warm, I turn the temp down from 104 to 98 or 95...  I still get the benefits of a heated massage.

However, one issue that I did not anticipate was the fact that as I age, it gets more and more difficult for me to lift my leg over the side of the hot tub in order to lift and pull my body inside...  and,  it is increasingly more difficult for me to reverse the procedure when extricating myself out of the hot tub.  

I have built myself a little bench, but I have it too high, so I need to cut it in half or possibly more than that in order for it to become a helpful too/aid.