Nothing To Stand On

My power chair finally went down earlier this week I knew I was getting close by the way a warning screen would pop on my hand display. Finally, the system went down entirely on Memorial Day, which is OK, I id not have anything planned it is just annoying not have adequate transportation and being forced to drive my van a lot more then I want to. Luckily for me I had been on top of the issue and had my chair in the shop a couple weeks ago and the mechanic/tech had started the process of getting the motors approved a getting them ordered in—supposedly the motors are due to arrive in City tomorrow but they will not be able to get the motors installed until Monday.

I have a manual wheelchair and it is essentially junk. I can get round the house OK with the chair but that is about all—the cushion sucks, my feet will not stay on the footrest and the back is all but ripped out. I hate taking the quickie out n public which I did on Tuesday when dropped my powerchair off at the shop. I had sort of hoped the Magic Rest were going offer me a back up chair but the was true wishful thinking. What the Magic Rest goons did do was offer me a chair which I could rent for $500.00 a month which is totally stupid. So what I did next was cruise down to the IL.where I knew they had a bunch of power chairs. Sure enough, the chair I used to own was there waiting for me. True the chair has a sucky cushion, forcing me to spend my day doing pressure releases, but it is mobility and free compared to half a grand..

I. of course, was in my manual chair when I picked up the power chair. When I transferred from my manual to the power I took off my foot hangers( peddles) and set them in the powerchair next to the one I was getting to, and forgot all about them until the following morning when I was getting dressed—I have to have the foot peddles in place to “stand up” on to pull my pants up over my hips. So I have been waking Dianne up to help with my pants. So today I call my buddy Kim at the UILC, who got the hangers sent over to me and now I am whole again. I will be with out my power chair for the weekend—and I am praying the motors come in tomorrow. I just want my powercchair back.