Nice to have a gold check

I sent my major power chair off to the Fix-It shop a few hours ago. I hope they can at least fix the foot box and get it back to me by tomorrow night that would be splendid. I don't hold out much hope but that's all I've got is Hope. However, if the shop is not able to fix the chair enough for me to get by until they end up doing a major repair- hope hope - I've been using and will use my backup chair which I don't really have a lot of faith in but that's changing a little bit by a little bit I'm happy to report. Yesterday I had my my home health person place me in the backup chair and I used it all day yesterday and actually last night I had some problems with my living situation and about 12:30 I ended up shutting off a major function of this powered chair and I spent the next 2 hours trying to figure out a way to get myself known to somebody that I was in problems and desperate need of assistance. Fortunately I was able to finally get some of the tension and my son came over and save me from having to spend the night sitting in my chair or whenever I could get some assistance. This is a whole different issue that I have to work on sooner or later because I'm finding that I'm losing the ability to do more and more things independently that I used to have no issue with at all. I blamed a lot of it on my other chair the ones in the shop but I think the reality is it's probably me. I'm getting old I can no longer Wrangle myself the way that I used to I hopefully this is just me babbling. The reason I brought this up was because I was afraid that I would not be able to charge my chair fully by this afternoon when I would meet my friends, my writing friends for lunch at a restaurant a number of blocks from my apartment. I wasn't sure if my batteries would hold a charge long enough for me to do the running around that I would need to do to get to the restaurant and back. Finally when my son was done I did plug my chair in and slip for the rest of the night and although that the battery indicator on the charger usually shuts off when it's charged but it was still blinking quickly as it does has it comes into its completion phase it blinks quickly then it goes to a solid green. It was not that way at all and I was afraid that the battery had charged had not charged. When I finally got into my chair it read that it was 100% charged so I'm not sure what the blinking near blinking light means but I was able to use the chair to get to the bus and to get me to the restaurant have my meal and then drive my chair back to the bus stop and back home. The chair totally worked and if I have to use it for an extended. Time I believe now I would be able to even I think the chair is kind of squirrely and I think the batteries are kind of weak but for now I did all the running around I needed to do today and I'm still at 91% charge in the batteries. I don't know how long that would last me and I am going to charge my chair tonight but I'm feeling quite comfortable with the use of my power chair backup chair and that's like having a gold check..