Messy Mondays
; font-size: large;">If
there were black Mondays I guess this might qualify as one but really
perhaps I'm being a little melodramatic. This morning I had a
realization that possibly the problem I'm having with my morning
transfers from my bed to the chair (new chair and talking about) is
that I'm not high enough to do the “fall into the bed thing”.
This works so well with my other chair I just figured would be the
same this chair. I'm not sure but this morning as I was pondering
what the difference was I'm pretty sure the feature of the elevator
on my chair is what's making the big difference. I should've realized
this from the beginning and not ordered the feature (though I
definitely love having the elevator when I need to have used it
already like three or four times in the apartment and out). But of
course the chairs, sit higher on the platform because the elevator
takes a significant amount of space. This morning I almost did not
make the transfer getting stuck in between the bed and the chair.
Luckily, I was able to move the chair away from the bed minutely to
the point where I could safely recline the chair almost into a prone
position where I was nearly lying down and then to myself onto the
wheelchair seat . I kind of sabotage myself by slightly moving the
chair forward – – which really works when I'm falling into my
chair does not work when I'm trying to transfer straight across –
–luckily I got squared away in the chair and then to my horror left
side of my chair pretty much fell off. It's kind of complicated but
there's a slider on the arm that somehow has come loose. What I
scooted forward the whole mechanism came off. What was left of the
arm of my chair then was the receiver and which was actually mounted
to the chair but was quite jagged and abrasive I scratched my arm up
quite a bit because now I didn't have anything but the jagged edge to
pull myself up to the upright position it seems like every 10 minutes
I have to do because I am scooting in this new chair. I have to be
careful not to talk myself into new chair depression or NCD. Luckily
because my scoliosis which pulls me so far to the right I was not in
fear of falling from my chair because of the left side being gone. I
just didn't know what else to do, it was not enough to make me cry
and I wasn't serious that it was just enough to kind of record by
day. Luckily Melanie showed up and was able to finally figure out the
problem and put the side of the arm back into the receiver and has
got me by from rest of the day. I've made the calls have got the
mechanic coming out tomorrow at 8 AM and hopefully he can only secure
the arm piece in place until I can meet with my occupational
therapist and the mechanic Allen on Friday and hopefully get some
things nailed down before everyone disappears for the Fourth of July
holiday.
As
bad as all this sounds and to me it sounds quite bad I have to really
sit step back and rethink my situation. I'm at a great apartment,
have food in the fridge, computer with Internet connection with
enough speed to keep me happy. Friends, a great ex-wife, family and
professionals who will get this all figured out one where the other I
have a life to look forward to. My butt hurts because I think the
chair and the cushion are working against me but I think all things
will work out…
No comments:
Post a Comment