My Monday bitch

Are you all so tired of me bitching about my chair my power chair that you're really just to give up on the blog entirely? But it's true my chair is the bane of my existence a true love hate relationship to say the least. When the chairs functional it's great I love the chair but it's lack of attention has allowed it to get so dysfunctional that I'm having a difficult time existing in the chair now. I'm going to have to break down relatively soon and see if I can send it in for some more repairs. It gets a little dicey at this point in time because the chairs like is in its 5th Year of existence as my chair and I think the company is going to dump anymore money into his repairs if I'm just going to get another chair in another year hopefully. My headrest now has messed up somehow and I've got to get it looked at. The headrest now is all caddywampus and it works to a certain degree but I don't know how long I can trust that it's going to hang on to the back of my chair it feels totally loose and squirrels all over when I try to put my head back. I think it's a relatively quick and easy fix the foot box is another question entirely it's not necessarily the football itself as much as the padding it goes over the foot box and around it that's supposedly keeps your feet securely inside the foot box. My spasms are so significant and I use my foot box so much in my dressing and undressing that I put a lot of pressure on the padding which is really only adhered to the foot box by velcro patches that after a few weeks or months the velcro wears out and the pressure of my body against the padding just pushes it off the foot box altogether and also when it's bunched up as it tends to do it makes my foot sit crazy inside the foot box all bent over to one side. It really makes you look like a poster boy for some major program of some sort. It's uncomfortable to say the least somewhat painful to the point that I've got sweat pouring off of my neck which happens now whenever I I'm in some kind of pain whether I know or I don't know. The body knows. This is a fairly new phenomenon for me I think I briefly talked about it. For spinal cord injured individuals who can't feel pain for instance many times when they are in pain their body will begin to sweat sometimes profusely until what's causing the pain is identified, isolated in the pain problem is removed. I know what the problem is in my case it's my feet and the shoes that I'm wearing the spasms in my feet causing my feet to roll over on bunions or whatever those things are called bumps on your feet which are really painful when pressured. When I put my shoes on myself for some reason I don't get these issues but when Melissa puts on my shoes when she dresses me it on the mornings when she's here I almost immediately start experiencing pain from my feet. Today I finally had to stop what I was doing take my shoe off my left foot and put it back on after that I was fine. As I've discussed before if I'm going to get my chair fixed that means I have to give it up for a day and I hate to do that so I have drug my feet so long and getting problems fixed. I'm at such a discomfort level now that I'm willing to take that step and maybe tomorrow or Wednesday make the phone call to give up my chair for some kind of repair I hope..