Never change my sheets because I sleep in a leather recliner next to my wife's recliner(she sleeps thee because of her COPD).
I'm sorry your wife is suffering so badly with the COPD Al... but I was just wondering, does long term use of a recliner not cause lower back pain?
No back pain for me or her. She can't sleep in a bed. She'd been sleeping in a recliner for about a year and I was sleeping in bed in the bed room so I bought another recliner so that we could be together again.
I change ours weekly and wash the ones I take off the same day. My wife always sleeps better with clean sheets and pillow cases. When I had my hip replacement done in 2005, I couldn't walk up the steps to our bedroom upstairs, so I had to sleep sitting up on the couch we had downstairs in the living room. We bought a descent 2-Way Intercom System (portable type) from Radio Shack. I had one intercom by the couch and my wife had the other by the bed upstairs. We'd say "goodnight, I love you" to each other before going to sleep. We ended up getting rid of the couch and buying two recliners, which came in very handy for the two rotator cuff surgeries (one in each shoulder) that I had. For eight weeks or so, I had to sleep in my wife's recliner, which was located next to our bedroom door where she was sleeping. I really never had a problem sleeping in the recliner, but was very, very glad to be able to go back to sleeping in a bed. My wife has a very hard time sleeping (napping) in the recliner.
Since the advent of warm Spring weather here in the High Desert, I now sleep on top of all the Sheets, Blanket, and Comforter, resulting in a longer time between bedding changes. (My wife still sleeps under a blanket in her bedroom.) Hal
I don't GO to sleep in a recliner, but I FALL asleep frequently in my bedroom recliner while watching TV. Hal