Foot box Woes

 I'm exhausted and I didn't really do anything today. I watched a couple movies and finished a miniseries I've been watching but oh yeah I went to breakfast with Janet but that's part of this blog that I'll tell you more about later. I'm exhausted because what happened to my power chair yesterday. It's been happening more and more the last couple weeks but and I've talked about it about how my foot box stops working. When this happens I'm basically stuck with where the foot box stopped working or the position of the foot box.

Last night I realized pretty late like at 10:30 that my foot box  all scrumpled up1 in fact the foot box had been messed up all day causing my legs and feet look totally weird as as well as the rest of my body. I was pretty well messed up cuz I didn't know how I was going to get to bed. Okay what I said the foot box was messed up I mean I couldn't modulate the position of the box with my controller. I've had a wire Miss connect been going on for a couple of days. What I can find the wire I can wiggle it and it starts working again but last night I couldn't find it for some reason and it was really stuck in the up position and it made it very difficult especially since I was wearing shoes to move my feet around to get my clothes off. I end up calling Marc Anthony who I knew was going to be doing something but sometimes he's wandering around town during the night after he gets done with the show or something. I knew if I could have him come over he'd be able to do a quick fix by adjusting those wires and get the wires back in contact. I did make contact with Mark and I realized that I could probably get myself undressed and once that was done I can roll into bed. So I texted him back indicating that I think I was okay for the night that he did not need to stop back or stop by but in the morning if he could come over we could work on my chair. It took me a while to undress it really was a challenge and I had to use my sticks to move my legs in such a way that I was able to get my shoes off then my shorts and then finally rolled myself into bed about 1:00 a.m.

I was kind of surprised at how well I slept waking up around 5:00 a.m. then hanging around the bed until 6:00 a.m. because I really didn't want to try transferring but eventually did in the transfer went well as I anticipated it would. Mark finally contacted me and he was pretty tired from his work the night before but he said he would stop by but he had a busy day and it wouldn't be much and it wouldn't a lot but he would do what he could. I decided as difficult it was going to be that I'd go ahead and get dressed and again this was very difficult to do with the way that the foot box was positioned and the way that I had my legs up made it really difficult for me to try to move my legs around by Sticks but I did it and I was dressed by the time he got here more or less at least I was presentable and halfway decent. Of course Mark found the problem and there is an issue it seems like a part is gone that needs to be repaired so I am going to have to send it in but in the meantime he did do a job of using some contact tape some of the gray tape or silver tape put it together and wrap it around the tape and such a situation hopefully that it will stay together until I can get it sent back to the shop for repairs and who knows how long that's going to take. The chairs been working in okay for the rest of the day. But is sore because the way that my legs were cramped up it caused me to push the whole weight of my body down on my butt and I think I either bruised it or maybe started something. Actually the whole thing could have been averted head my caretaker not been on vacation. She's the one I usually default to she's great but she's out camping this weekend I can't I deny her that. So I'm back on the road for however long I can get away with it. I'll call Monday to see about an appointment to get them to pick up my chair this of course means I'm going to have to utilize by backup chair which kind of scares me to death on a bunch of different levels but it'll get me by I think it'll have to..