New Wheelchair
Thursday, 18 June 2009 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jesse_the_kIt's that time of the decade: I'm starting the process of getting a new powerchair.
It's exciting and terrifying at the same time. On the one hand, there are brochures and websites to peruse, peers to consult, plus/minus charts to fill out. On the other hand, I won't know my working budget until my insurance company decides how much to cover, getting a test drive will require hours and hours of phone calls, and when I'm all done I'll have the pleasure of poking holes in and scraping paint off my walls for a couple months until I get proficient with the new controls.
On the plus side, chairs have got a whole lot more functional: Mark E Smith, who's a life-long chair user and wheelchair designer provides a funny and hair-raising account of the early technology. Thank goodness for those early adopters!
It's exciting and terrifying at the same time. On the one hand, there are brochures and websites to peruse, peers to consult, plus/minus charts to fill out. On the other hand, I won't know my working budget until my insurance company decides how much to cover, getting a test drive will require hours and hours of phone calls, and when I'm all done I'll have the pleasure of poking holes in and scraping paint off my walls for a couple months until I get proficient with the new controls.
On the plus side, chairs have got a whole lot more functional: Mark E Smith, who's a life-long chair user and wheelchair designer provides a funny and hair-raising account of the early technology. Thank goodness for those early adopters!
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Date: 18/06/2009 11:59 pm (UTC)Shiny new tech to drool over!
Good luck.
Fingers crossed for you.
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Date: 19/06/2009 01:26 am (UTC)And, oh, I *loved* that piece by Smith. Thanks so much for the link. *hee*
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Date: 19/06/2009 04:51 am (UTC)