Wheelchair rant

 I know my dedicated readers are getting a little frustrated with me focused so much on the repairs of my chair but it's the only thing that I have to really bitch about right now. Actually that's probably not true I have so much more but the pain that I'm going through just sitting in this chair now pushes me to babble more about where repair chair is at in the whole process. I'm flummoxed that they the insurance paid the $3,000 for the repair. I mean I appreciate it but I don't know what could take $3,000 cuz they just dumped about that much into it a few months ago. The way they sounded like they weren't going to do it again no matter what but here we go. I just hope that I am able to get the chair back relatively soon before my whole body implodes. Honestly however I am getting around and the weather hasn't been wonderful to the point that I'd be out doing stuff if I had a good chair right now anyway. One of the big questions I've got for me now is that when my chair does get back do I dump any money into this chair that I'm in right now, as a backup chair, to make it a little bit more usable. It needs batteries desperately I can barely go two and a half miles before I'm almost out of juice. That two and a half miles is after charging the chair up all night long. Luckily if I use public transit to its full capability I can just about do anything I really want on the beginning of a full charge I just have to watch where I'm going and how long I've been out zipping around. I don't know what I'll do if and when I no longer can sustain a full charge and go somewhere. Right now the furthest I go on a regular basis is Downtown Salt Lake for my usually weekly assist meeting. By using the bus system in the track system I can do everything on a good charge but usually the warning lights might be flashing by the time I get back. I could basically drag my charger along with me and if I had enough Focus plug in and charge during my meeting. It would just be simpler to get to new batteries but I don't want to put new batteries in this chair if I'm not going to keep it because my plan is to have the chair that's being repaired now as my backup chair if and when I ever do get a brand new chair. That's looking more and more iffy everyday in my estimation. Ended on a high note however I am happy to report that this morning I was able to get up out of bed no problems and then with just a minor amount of focus be able to get myself entirely dressed! That's with both shoes on and shirt pulled down pretty much all the way in the back no Skin showing and legs bundled together. I could make the appearance that I'm doing okay- - which I am just some mornings I have such a difficult time dressing myself.