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 I think I've rattled on before about how painful it is to go to the mailboxes at the front of the building, go through the effort of sticking the key in the front of the box then opening said box only to find advertisements and very circulars inside. It seems if I get any mail that's government issue type stuff. So, nowadays I just go down to the mailbox once every two weeks or so and empty out the garbage. I sort most of the stuff out there dumping as much as I can so I don't have to bring back to the apartment. I did this yesterday and there is a couple of pieces of mail I end up keeping to open up back in the apartment which I did this one last. I thought sure it was an advertisement from my durable medical provider but actually what it was was a denial service. The season reader will remember that I've been trying to get a new chair for the last year or so. I've been denied all the way around but this last summer when I dropped in for my physician's appointment and he saw the condition of the chair I was in he got all involved. He actually let me believe that he had written a letter and had gotten responded to and it was positive but in yesterday's mail I had the letter and I open it up at the dinner table tonight- - like I said I thought it was just an acknowledgment that the fact that my chair was on its way. I sort of got the impression that have been okayed earlier in the month from my durable medical person but he was obviously wrong. This document was a two-page document indicating that I was not eligible for a chair yet and will not be eligible until I think June of 2026 specifically June 20th 2026! This information didn't devastate me I've sort of given up on the whole concept anyway. And as Melissa, my CNA, indicated that we'll just have to keep this chair going for another year. Right now it seems to be in a fairly good place as far as operating as a chair should. The only thing I'm having an issue with these days is about wheelchair cushion which now I'm definitely going to have to get a new one. I'm using a backup cushion that I got on one of my other chairs because the cushion I was in or on and using b l e w apart a couple weeks ago. I've been using the backup one that's really not fit for the chair and doesn't fit me very well and doesn't have a whole lot of padding. It's just frustrating. My course of action will be to send this document over to my main physician, the one that was so verbal in letting me know that he wasn't going to let the government tell him that his patient couldn't get what my doctor felt the patient needed. I don't know and that this will do any good.

I put on about 3 miles on my chair today which doesn't sound like a lot but really kind of is when you add in the train and the bus modes of transportation. The public transit handles long trips and the chair is just for going back and forth to the transit points as well as cruising around the community where I ended up going. Today I had to go to the credit union they get enough cash to last me through to the first of the month. I need cash for tips for my care person as well as my cleaning person. I guess I could give them checks but cash they can do whatever they want and it's one less hope they have to jump through…