Everything seems to kind of working out but of course it's way too early to say one way or the other but today I was focused on trying to fix my hospital bed. When I consulted my journal I found out for sure that indeed I had lost the same piece of equipment less than 6 months ago around the 24th of July. In those warm/hot chaotic summer days I did a lot of research found the serial number of this bed and started calling around to find out how much and when and where it would take to repair the bed that had Brokenness motor that raises the head up which I desperately need to do a safe transfer when getting up in the mornings as well as sleeping comfortably through the night. I found that raising the bed up a little bit the head of the bed allows me much better sleep. I also remembered that I talked or spoken with two different individual/groups that possibly repair this kind of product. It was all somewhat complicated but it got done I don't remember the procedure costing nearly $500 but I suppose it did that's what they said they found my records. I don't want to have to purchase another $500 piece of equipment to once again put on this bed but I don't know what I'm going to have to do. So in the meantime I did make contact with the company and they're going to send somebody out, a technician, to ascertain the problem and to see if there's anything it can be done. I had quite a lengthy discussion with one of the Reps who said that the part I'm going to need is not under warranty even though I had purchased the piece over just 6 months ago. This doesn't seem fair to me but I could tell there is no wiggle room to speak of. The only Ray of Hope if there was a ray of Hope was that he indicated the technician might be able to figure out a way to keep that part that somewhat shattered into functionality. Cuz remember even though the motor seems to be broken it's still well lift my upper torso up a little bit maybe all of it but I don't want to push the part. It will push high enough that I can sleep on my side the way I usually do. And if that's the case maybe it'll cost a lot less. Now you might remember, I am also so much stressed out with the fact that the power chair I'm in now seems to be falling apart. I had called my wheelchair shop last Friday but the person I needed was going to be out of the office until today. I need batteries, big giant wheelchair batteries the size of a car battery pretty much the same thing except that these batteries are deep cycle and somewhat contained in rubber housing making it fairly safe. Well the wheelchair shop got back with me this afternoon and it seems like they will pick up my chair next Thursday and if nothing else replace the batteries but I have a whole bunch of other stuff that needs to be looked at on the chair. What they will do is I understand it on Thursday will be to pretty much look at all the problems I asserted and then make contact with the wheelchair company to see if they will cover it in my insurance Etc. I assume they will and the guy that I spoke with seemed real gun hold that they were going to replace the batteries. I guess they should have been replaced a couple years ago. If that's the case it will not cost me anything for the new wheelchair batteries and I guess the $400 I would have paid for the new batteries with be eaten up by the cost of the bed repair. I hit like hell dumping another $400 into this bed but I guess that's the price of doing business. I guess I should just bite the bullet and do it. There's a number of different ways I could pull this rabbit out of the Hat with not only my regular bank account, the 1500 I have saved up in a couple accounts otherwise other places and even I can put it on my charge card if I felt comfortable enough to charge it. I'm trying not to do any credit at all if I can get away with it. So I think I'm going to be able to get all these things done and still come out of it fairly solvent and sometimes that's the best a person can do..
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