It is definitely a drag when your
backup chair needs its own backup chair. I am of course having to use
my backup chair sets the wheel fell off my main chair – – see
yesterday's post. However, I broke the footplate on my back and chair
so I have to ride with my foot crossed over my right foot in order to
use backpack chair. This means a trip over to Utah Center For
Assistive Technolog or U C A T. Actually I am as fortunate as hell
getting our time from the U C A T staff. There are booked into the
next couple weeks. I sure hope they're able to put together some form
of solution to the problem of the missing Footplate.
Y'all remember that we bought this
chair from th Create program a few weeks before my new chair came.
Part of the concept was I would have a backup chair in case I needed
one. For a prophetic was that? However I managed to bring the left
footplate on the chair couple days after I got it. Since my new
chair came shortly thereafter I sort of forgot about the backend
chair and its growth case and that's not even true I remembered I
just never got around to getting back to Create to repair the issue.
There's no excuse for this I know better I taught the need for
keeping your equipment up to snuff and I'm the biggest Abuser.
UCAT is a program of the state, UCAT's
a state agency. One of the few state agencies/programs which I think
really does a great job for people with disabilities. Fortunately for
me UCAT is a little-known piece of work that is incredibly positive.
I think of solutions and ideas for needs of people disabilities
problems you might have solutions. You have a shop where they can
manufacture solutions which is what I am hoping for today. They're
becoming more and more busy as people find out about them but usually
you can still weaseled yourself in for service if you really need to
which is what I did. Hopefully I will have a better day than
yesterday trying to keep my feet on the front panel and the weight
off my ass.
Dianne will drop off the other power
chair to Alpine medical yesterday and they are going to look at and
hopefully sooner than later but I'll be surprised As they get to my
chair of the week and or even next week.
1707 hours… 09 2315 – – Wednesday
What a day!? I got to the UCAT building
and again I was two hours before my scheduled appointment and that's
cool I had to do besides I wonder visit with the new director of UCAT
Michael Wallenstein (close enough). Michael's old friend of mine used
to sit on my Board of Directors when I ran an information line for
the state of Utah. The action is a great guy and one am glad that the
directorship from UCAT he'll make a great asset to that organization
– – but I spent an hour visiting Michael didn't work on my chair
and it was more money than I thought was going hundred bucks but I
guess that's the price of doing business even if you do have the
state agency guy finally broke it down to 50 bucks parts 50 but
flavor is probably an hour and a half later so I guess on that level
I got a deal. And I think it a good job manufacturing footplate that
is not withstand the stress I put on the footplate. It was a long day
already from especially in this backup chair even with repaired
footplate. The seat is really too big for me and my scoliosis lists
me over to my right side I need to get some sort of pillow our case
a briefcase or some stick and that area of sufficient strength I also
experience a lot of stress on my butt/right cheekSpace if I'm going
to use this chair for any significant period of time. I really need
this support when I work out and when I use the Saratoga Silver.
Knowing this I can get myself better squared away for tomorrow. When
we will do it all again.
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