I currently have a no name? leather chair and ottoman that are fine. Had it for years, don't use it much. But I'm having some surgery in January and will need to sleep in a recliner for....a few days to a week.So my options were to rent something, you can rent lift chairs, but that seemed a bit icky; buy something super cheap, hope it doesn't die and then just sell it cheap or give it away; or buy something nice that I like and will want to keep. Since I'm getting older the idea of keeping it seemed good.

I live in a small apt with a narrow living room so:
I need:
(1) a wall hugger.
(2) the whole point of using this for surgery is I won't be able to move my arms much so it should be power (lets hope the power doesn't go out in a Jan storm). It needs to recline fairly far though I think I can cope for a week if it doesn't lay flat or go super far back. There is a part of me that says "you only need power for a week so why not suck it up without power". IDK what to think about that. The ones that you push on with your arms have been hard without being post surgery. Maybe a really smooth working handle one? But I guess you also get more postions with power so....

I want:
(1) something with decent sized seat. My current chair is 23" on the inside and is a t-cushion with low arms. This means I can sit sort of over on one side, curled up a little. I've looked at some Bradington Young on line and one? in a store and the seat was like 18.5 which is barely bigger than the airline seats everyone hates. What the heck?
(2) I don't like sitting in the bucket seat sort of style (see comments in #3) plus I hate the way it looks.
(3) I want an arm that scoops back or a t-cushion or something. I hate feeling like a chair is hard to get into or out because you have to maneuver around the arms. Or otherwise feeling trapped by the arms. Less arm the better! Low arms!
(4) I have a fabric couch and would greatly prefer leather (the cat is the main user of this chair, oh and he has all his claws so I would like something that will get marked up but not destroyed). At this point I'm not going to try not obsess about the quality of leather as I already feel like I'm going nuts but I don't like the super soft shinyish finish.
(5) style, something that would look good in a rural lodge, or sort of traditional.
(6) something that my head doesn't fight with an overstuffed cushion on the top.

I live in Dayton which has a few furniture stores. There are more options in Cinncinnati or Columbus but I am loathe to spend days driving around randomly looking at furniture I will hardly be able to remember.
Options I am aware of:

Laz y Boy is out - they don't make a power wall hugger recliner.

Flexsteel: I checked out one store that has a couple of Flexsteel, they would be..ok.

Bradington Young: One store has B-Y but only had one or maybe 2 chairs on the floor and I'm not sure they were the options that B-Y has that I want. There website is annoying - you have to click on every recliner to see whether its power or wall hugger or whatever.

Hancock and Moore: Looking online at H&M they have the Athens, the Barton (fabric only?) the Cody, the Austin and the Martial - there is no where I would find these all on the floor.
I'll eliminate the Barton for fabric and Cody for arm/seat combo. The Athens, Austin and Martial look like the back is already leaning back sort of far in the pictures? IDK, sight unseen purchases most likely.

Cheers: The big box furniture store has something called Cheers which I'd never heard of. The retail associate tried telling me it was the same as Flexsteel as they make furniture for Flexsteel. Not buying that but it looked ok visually and is similarly priced to the Flexsteel.

Leathercraft: I found something called Leathercraft online with a "heavy duty Swifel Rocker Recliner w/motor 2057SRM". Looks the same to the Hancock and Moore Austin. The dimensions are hard to imagine but seath width looks good. I just talked to the wholesale who told me to go to a store about 20 miles north of here if I want to order retail. This would be a sight unseen purchase.

Please help if you can, I'm already to close to my surgery date to order something and not run the risk of it not being her on time!

dccolliie, I saw your post on calling and paying for advice on the phone. Is that an option?