I really did have great
hopes for this day and it was a pretty great day all things
considered but the way it ended much less than what I anticipated. I
was pretty excited when the day started. I think I was so excited I
couldn't sleep well. I woke up at 4:15 AM and really did not get back
to sleep. I was having lunch today with an old friend of my, a person
I work fairly close with during my career as a transit coordinator
will wind up in the learning Center. She was the Americans With
Disabilities Act ADA person for the local transit authority. She's
been retired now for maybe a year to and we never got together
actually until today. For a short time earlier this year she began
showing up for the DRAC meeting. It was good to see her at these
meetings I did not feel so alone – – Sherry, her name is Sherry,
Thought a lot like me. However when things started getting bizarre at
the DRAC program particularly the recent ADA anniversary event Sherry
dropped out. However, Sherry was still interested and have the event
and my feelings. We decided to have lunch to discuss this. I chose
the restaurant/bakery I had lunch with last week with my 211
peeps.gourmandies.
We have scheduled to meet
at 12:30 PM. I got there early, so you have to not to kill I went
across the street to the state wine store. I've been looking for a
box of wine but when asked the state work looked at me and said “oh,
you would want to go to the regularly store for that, we just handle
high-end wines here. And to what extent of the greatest of headed
over to the bakery. At one point leaving the wine store I drove on
the sidewalk and onto the grass. I was quite shocked when also my
power chair jolted and I must have drove into a ditch small ditch on
the side of the sidewalk covered with grass. It took me a while to
drive back on the sidewalk but was able to do so I didn't pay any
more attention. I met Sherry we had a great lunch and visited for
hours. When it was time to go my power chair began to act strangely.
The left drive wheel was somehow lifted up and could barely touch the
ground coffee me to sort of go in circles. I couldn't go forward I
would not be able to go home!
The days are hot and the
is no different. Sherry worked with me as much as she could trying to
figure out what was wrong with my chair and what we can do to get it
fixed. I called the shop, wheelchair shop and they were essentially
worthless. They said that they could certainly my chair out once I
got home that was the problem how to get home? Luckily, Sherry still
have friends at the transit authority and they sent out an accessible
short van to pick me up and drove me all the way home. As you
longtime readers know I have a backup chair just for situations like
this. I was hoping RafaelCould help me transfer into my backup chair.
We were not able to accomplish this and I really felt that Rafael
needed get back to work . Rafael, Who was a supervisor, and only
cannot save me because it shares history with the authority. Nobody
else would they have done something like this for truly saved my
bacon. I called my brother, my good old or brotherWho dropped
everything and came out and rescued me once again..
I have a love-hate
relationship with this chair is too big for me is very uncomfortable.
I hope they fix like chair one day. I don't know how long I could
stand this chair I have to spend any amount of time in the chair. I
would have to cancel bookclub on Thursday they can't get it fixed
tomorrow. I suspicion that something happened when I ran on the
sidewalk into that whole. I jammed the wheel or something or maybe
broke something on the motor. It's already been costly in time. Let's
just hope we can get it done by tomorrow evening.
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