Hello.
As I merge into the reality of a permanent wheelchair user, I have discovered some developing characteristics. Here’s my account if you wishe to read it.
Best wishes, Steve.
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I liked your blog it made me laugh, its hard to explain to anyone else the fun but also the hazards if a power chair I’ve not used mine in the house yet but I’ve had a few disasters out and about I think with practice I’ve got better but I remember destroying a display in a shop in the early days when I first got the chair and on one occasion arriving home with "stolen goods " they’d some how attached themselves to my chair and been dragged home. The worst time was when I forgot to turn my chair off and my daughter put her coat on the side of my chair…I nearly launched through a glass window , she’d only put it over the controls, they are super sensitive. Michelle x
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Hi Steve
Really enjoyed your blog, thanks. Yes, using a powerchair, allowing independence is great, apart from all the little obstacles that you mention…state of pavements and cars parked on them, are two of my bug bears. Stuff being up high in shops…if I speak the truth, even if I was standing up, I doubt I could reach them! but as my Dad always told me…all the best things come in little packages lol
To stop the electric shocks when you are in your chair, my husband bought off t’internet an anti static wrist strap that you wear, and on the other end of it is a crocodile clip that you clip onto any metal part…and bingo no more shocks. Might be worth a try, it’s was only a couple of quid, but it works for me.
Enjoy your weekend.
Pam x
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I am lucky I don’t get static …yet. My house has loads of scrapes caused by my nearly driving. You know it nearly made it or it nearly fitted through. Heather came back from the shops the other day and knew I had been into the kitchen because of the splinters of wood
Don
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