Although I don’t need it for everyday use, I can only walk for about 10-15 minutes before I begin to have problems, at which point my walking deteriorates rapidly.
I’ve been using an old chair of my father-in-laws for a while for days out or if we need to cover ground quickly, but it’s quite old, heavy and too big for me. Wheelchair services wouldn’t fund one as I only need it part time, so took the plunge today and now have a modern, sparkly new one.
I don’t want to call it “the wheelchair” as that has such negative vibes.
Like it! Perhaps we can take it on our mission to Halifax!
(For anyone who wants to know more about that reference and fancies a giggle, there’s a brill post over on the New & Before Diagnosis board entitled “If any one has seen my brain please send it back ASAP!”)
Hi Mine is called George (George Michael’s song, Freedom) !! How about Shirley (Bassey…sparkly, diamonds are forever) Or Howard ( the reference to Halifax, he was the bloke in the Halifax bank ad and he moves well !!)
Hi there I’m pleased you have a wheelchair to help you get around - I know people have difficulty accepting they need to use one but for me it has been liberating.
I love my wheelchair - I call mine Roy (short for Rolls Royce) because he top of the range to me.
I hope you soon feel the same way with yours and you give him/her a super name.
My power assisted chair is Tenzing (my Sherpa). It will be pensioned off soon for a Quicki Salsa who I’m thinking will be Scarlet as its red. Have fun with your new independence!! Sara x
Andy … cos it is “handy” and the first time I used one I was so fed up of my daughter dumping me in the middle of IKEA, that I finally jumped out, as like yourself I am still able, and yelled “I want that one!” like a Lou and Andy scene off little britain … she has never dumped me again lol
