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Remember the last trauma I had with my power wheelchair when I fried my controller and I was without a my power chair over the weekend—and I even tried using my Quickie ‘folder chair’ for work and the whole event turned out to be just dreadful.? Following that experience I vowed to get a better back-up system then my little red chair. For a long while no I have been coveting rigid frame chairs every time I have gone in to have work done on my power chair—not only for the value of having an emergency chair I can use with some degree of comfort ut also a chair in which I can start getting some much needed exercise. It’s not that I am going to start pushing again, like my shoulders would allow me to push very long but a chair in which I could push round the neighborhood and better yet, a chair I could play some volleyball or other adapted sports in. Then acouple weeks ago I was over at the Utah Center for Assistive Technology (UCAT), for a meeting, I don’t remember which meeting but I had noticed that the CREATE program( which is housed in the back of he Buffmire building, had some new pieces of equipment in and something in the back of my mind pushed me to make a closer inspection of their offerings. When I did check out the new additions, I could believe my eyes, there was a black Quickie GPV—looking like almost new! I knew this equipment was not almost new, actually far from it, but Jose and staff had detailed the chair, replaced the back and the sling so the chair looked like new, then I saw the price $135.00!! Hey this was doe able. I don’t know why I did no take the chair home with me then—I should have, I cold have…but didn’t . I told the CREATE folk that I needed to think on it but 99.44% sure I was going to purchase the chair. I know they would have let me take the rigid frame home for a test “roll”—in fact it is stupid that I did not, now that I am thinking on it, just to make sure the chair fit me adequately or if there was anything drastically un comfortable with the seating or the frame or what ever. I am till going to have get a cushion for the chair and hopefully, I can get the folks at UCAT to throw the cushion in as par of the deal, we’ll have to see.

I have a meeting over there at Buffmire on Wednesday and I’ll drive the van in there and drive over for the meeting then afterward I’ll have them throw the chair in the back of the van. But, I have to admit, I am excited, a Quickie GPV for $135.00. I am going to have to really rethink this program—I have sort of been bad mouthing the program for the last year or so as offering their ‘rehab’s” for way too much but now I had better hold my tongue and give this operation a second chance