well @#$%^&&^%$#@-- sometimes I get mad!

[isittoolate]

hi lighter
Chairs are likley less in the States.

Re wheels: there are wheels that never go flat--polyurethane-- a substance for the wheel  that is covered with black rubber, sealed on. I never worry about flats...........are extra though.

My chairs last me 5-6 years, then get a new one, as they don't last forever

Does he have a bad arm for wheeling? There is a setup that it is all done from the side of the good hand/arm (I used to direct a lady in Rehab who could never remember the moves and was always running into doors and walls.)

Tricky dicky Dad

Love
Izzy

[lighter]

Thanks for the info, Izz.

I'll have to check out the chair that he can menauver with the one good arm.  Yup, just one arm works so... that makes sense.

He's been in that same chair for about.... ummmm..... 10 years?

So.... he mainly goes from bedroom to living room,not so many miles as the Izz puts on her's, no doubt.... but still time to do something. 

I'm deciding against the battery powered one.... just more to worry about and go wrong I think. 

[isittoolate]

Yes the one-armed on has both rims on the good side, one is for left, one is for right and grabbing both is for straight ahead.

[lighter]

Yes the one-armed on has both rims on the good side, one is for left, one is for right and grabbing both is for straight ahead.

WOw.... that makes sense, thanks: )

[changing]

Hi-

I can just picture our Izz wheeling about the Rehab as if she were in Le Mans, and giving instruction to the slower (read: everyone) drivers!

Love,
Changing

[isittoolate]

changing,

You are right in a way, but driving directions were just for this one elderly woman (she stole my panties from the shared bathroom--washed)

For the most part, being 30, I was older than the other car crash victims and diving victims, football, hockey, aged 16 to maybe 23. They had never married nor had children. I became MOM to them, male and female.

I helped them to smoke a cig when hands and arms didn't work, and helped them have a drink. I smashed down their food--like a fat hamburger, to a fat pancake and then they could manage it (I talk about different people-different abilities) I combed their hair , put in barretes or ribbons, helped with the lipstick, straightened the clothing, made sure the bell bottoms (Popular at the time--I hated them) were folding over the paralyzxed legs in a decent appearance from a floppy fold.

Nurse don't do these things--one said to the girl I mentioned there with hair and lipstick, "I don't know why you bother with all that. Who would want you anyway?" How cruel! That's when I took Carole under my wing, and many nights I set someone's hair and combed it out in the morning. (as well as my own--it was always pretty)

One mistake I made was with a guy wno had a broken neck and instead of healing from the neck down, he was healing from the feet up. He walked but his hands were 'gnarled'. Aty lunch one day I reached under the table and tied his shoes together. That was so terribly wrong and he let me know it. I apologized profusley as he had his hands, as best he could, around my neck, right there in the dining room in front of everyone. Incident settled and we were fine after that.

That was some life---------Rehab!---a really individual experience!

Love
Izzy

[lighter]

I know I've said it more than once but....

you should write a book Izzy.

And... how did you know the old lady stold your panties (clean)?

I can only imagine you peeked under her robe then patiently waited for them to come up clean and hanging again? 

Pulled them off her while she protested?

Followed her around all day barking HEY! HEY HEY! Till she gave them back?


((Izzy))  Mama to all those kids.... and that nurse..... OMG..... she shouldn't be working with human beings in any capacity: /

I had to stop reading and process her statement to that girl..."why do you bother, who'd want you anyway?"

OMG....

[CB123]

Aty lunch one day I reached under the table and tied his shoes together.

Oh, Iz!  I am laughing so hard! 

I can picture a whole lunch room full of people in wheelchairs and THE ONE PERSON who can walk in the whole place has his feet tied together!  I would have wrung your neck, too! 

I'm with Lighter.  It's time to write a book...

Love
CB

[isittoolate]

LOL lighter and CB

My panties were missing from the hang to dry dryer rods and, being we had little privacy, I came out of my room, which led to her room which led to the bathroom, and a nurse was just pulling my panties out of the woman's night stand to put on her. (She was the one-armed wheelchair user who I guided)

I said"You're the one who stole my panties!" and I left it that she could keep them. I didn't want them back!

..."why do you bother, who'd want you anyway?" and this was said as Carole's husband and childrren were waiting to visit, and of all things, the clod brought his girl-friend thhis time!

Boy I saw a lot!!
Love Izzy