Near Miss

 I almost died last week! I know that's a little melodramatic I don't know if I would have died or if I would just been maimed at more crippled than I already am. But it was and there's something experience no doubt about it. It all goes back to my power chair I like to blame everything negative one my power chair it's a poor thing to take as much abuse as I lay on it but it's true. Two things in particular on the hand control that drives my chair there's something wrong with the joystick and somehow it bumps and turns the chair off many times while I'm moving and also the device that hooks the drive to the chair has been bent up so severely that it puts my hand right in contact with on and off button my fingers curled as they are around the joystick could hit one of the off buttons and stop the forward motion of the chair. I don't know which one of these items happened the other day but I was at intersection getting ready to go to my meeting in Salt Lake so the day must have been Tuesday. I had to cross the tracks track and the train was stationary and I figured I had more than enough time to get across but as I was crossing the tracks the unevenness of the track rails caused my hand to jump up and down and suddenly my indicator indicated that the chair was stopping was turning itself off. When this happens it takes the chair about 30 seconds to recycle itself that 30 seconds feels like 30 hours no question about it. And of course I stopped with one of my front wheels straddling the rails of the tracks and the train was moving now towards me and I was trying to get the chair to cycle through as fast as it would so I can back my chair off of the tracks. It was one of those events for everything was going in slow slow motion but I remember most is that there are people at the intersection and one of them clearly saw me and I must have had thrown my face because all the sudden he throws the door open and starts coming toward me as fast as he could in at the same time my chair cycle through a nice able to dump the chair into gear and back my ass up off the rails and back into a safety zone. The train passed by quickly I took a breather, a big breath of relief. I know this probably seems tame to a lot of people but for me it was just another one of those points where one moment you would be there in the next moment you would be gone. As I get older and older for one reason or another I see that or those points more and more often in my life. The Reapers out there and it's ready to swing his scythe