The wheelchair shop picked up my power chair tonight. Tomorrow they'll go over it and see what needs to be done and I assume will contact my provider to make sure everything's covered. They do this you know they won't even lift a finger to fix the chair until they figure they're going to get paid. This used to really frustrate me a lot but I've gotten used to it. Hopefully they'll bring the chair back tomorrow evening. I've sat in this chair all day since my shower this morning and I had my caregiver switch out the chairs it's been a bit of a challenge but I've made it through the day the question now is will I make it through the night? Remember I almost had to call 911 earlier in last week. This was when my foot fell between the football and the bed getting up. So I've got a challenge of a bed sometimes the back works sometimes it doesn't and it's a bit of a challenge getting into the other chair this chair should be a real hoot to get into in the morning. The arm of the chair doesn't go down like the other one does this one goes straight up I don't know what that's going to do as far as my transfer. I shouldn't be so worried because I've gotten by with this chair before and now supposedly they've built up the footbox so supposedly my foot should be even more secure. I think the big challenge is going to be I'm going to be able to dress myself in this chair? I've had to lean the chair back a couple of time to cut the weight off of my rear end I can feel it getting more sensitive Plus whatever is wrong with the side of my foot bunion or callus or whatever it is I've been near sweating all day actually I have been sweating. I used to think it was so weird that people will spinal cord injuries often sweat when they get a challenge to their body one way or the other. I noticed when my butt is in peril or I'm sitting cattywampus in my chair and causing my spine to twist that nowadays I sweat not big bunches of gallons like I've seen some pair of sweat but just a damp uncomfortable moisture which tends to swell around my neck and head underneath the hat I'm wearing. It makes me wish I could see my old spinal cord friends and tell them I understand now why they would perspire when there was a wrinkle in there shorts are pants when they sitting in their chair or their shoes are too tight or something else which might cause the sweating but they would sweat and now so do I. Mainly just because my feet get very uncomfortable or that I'm sitting straighter in my chair this chair the backup chair that I do in my other chair where it looks like I'm laying down in the chair most of the time. Getting by in this life is nothing but a trade-off I figured.
I tried to print but the envelopes today and of course I was out of ink or the ink had dried up or something I don't know what all I know is that when my caregiver and I were trying to print envelopes this morning before we started my shower the printer wouldn't work and I'm pretty positive is because the ink is dried up since I used it last granted there probably wasn't a whole lot of ink in there to begin with. I think I've done two or three mail-outs which is very intensive as far as printing the envelopes as well as the documents. I was going to roll over to Walmart which would necessitate me crossing the street and they just wasn't enough to doing that in this power chair just yet anyway. I just don't know how well the batteries will respond. So in that vein I had my caregiver pack one of the many cloth bags that I have kicking around the apartment. I found one just right to carry the charger in. I I'm taking the charger with me tomorrow in this Canvas Bag hanging on the back of my chair. Tomorrow I must go over to assist for my meeting. I may have them unpack the charger while I'm at the meeting didn't charge my battery just a little bit. I shouldn't have much problem I don't think I'm pretty sure I can go a couple miles and then if I catch the bus outside my back door and go into the switch over place and then into the bus station and straight back to the apartment after the meeting I should be okay worst case I snagged somebody to push me the rest of the way to the apartment when the batteries cop out unless I can figure out a place to charge them on my way home and have the patience to wait until I get strong enough charge to get to the apartment …
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