Once again I was awake off and on early this morning sorry about 3:00 a.m. to 4:00 a.m. Etc. I would slide in and out of sleep so I guess I accumulated some sleep over that period of time but the last time around 6:00 a.m I was awakened by Thunder and flashes of lightning a great little storm rolling through the area. I laid back on my pillow for a second to enjoy the morning Thunder then all the sudden I was was totally freaked out but I realized lightning and thunder equals power outages. Power outages equals being trapped in my bed since everything in my bed is electric. Frantically I threw back my blankets best that I could and started the process of swinging my legs out over my bed and onto my wheelchair. I was terrified that I would get stranded in my bed but that's okay because I had access to myself on and worst case scenario I could scream and yell till somebody came and open the door. Luckily, there was no power failure this morning during the electric storm but doesn't stop the possibility that it might happen again. Remember a couple months ago during the summer I woke up in the morning and there was no power? I don't want to go through that again not one little bit.
I'm currently going through different websites looking at little power storage systems-like little power generators that I can have hooked to my bed and hopefully when the power is off I would be able to access one of these devices and continue on with my day. I'm not sure how that would really work as far as plugging in my bed as well as my chair well not so much my chair but the bed. Remember my bed goes up and down as well as the top portion lifts me up as well which helps me in my transfer from the bed to the chair. I've looked at some small generator Power Systems less than $150 that might do the trick except for I don't know how much amperage- - I guess that's the terminology for power usage an item might use. For example if the power system is not strong enough or does not hold enough power then when I use the power bed if it doesn't have enough wattage or amperage or whatever it is it would just not power the bed up or down which I need it to do. So my course of action now is going to be maybe talk to my brother Carl who knows all things like this or talk to somebody else who may or may not know this kind of information. One of the places I'm thinking of would be the guys over at u c a t Utah Center for assistive technology and see what they think. I I've also thought about contacting the makers of the bed and see if they have it published as far as how much power the bed takes to operate. These questions I should probably know by now in my life but I don't. I want to make sure that if I get such device I'm getting the right size and it will work the one and only time that I'm going to need it to work if ever. I have however thought about it might be a good way to add a little power to my power chair if we get into a point where the regular Power Systems aren't working on a regular basis so I can fill up the charger and then charge my batteries as much as it'll charge on the power chair. The power chair batteries are quite large and I'm sure the little system wouldn't put a lot of energy into the larger batteries but possibly enough to get by. Until the regular power is restored...
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