Re: Uh-Oh..... Another foot story :-/

Billie <mynewsaccount@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Anyway, I was sitting here in my POWER chair, had just positioned myself,
when all of sudden whooommmm here she goooooooes! I could not feel myself
doing it, but I accidentally leaned onto the controller, propelling it
forward (I was just right here at the sofa). With the myasthenia I am very
clumsy, and uncoordinated, and it caused me to fumble trying to get off of
the controller. Whenever the chair hits the slightest resistance, it goes
into *overdrive* (my description) and plows its way wherever it wants to go.
Weeeel...........it jammed my left foot right, smack dab into a wooden
designer tissue box here beside me. Now the nail on the middle toe is half
off.... not hanging, more of an elongated rip, one side on, the other loose.

Sounds like this is the kind of accident that might happen again. You
can get powered wheelchairs that will stop when they hit something
instead of "going into overdrive". You can also get ones which will
stop *before* they hit anything. Not only prevents you hurting
yourself like that, but also other people, like a child. It might
even be a fittable option to the chair you've got. These kinds of
chairs used to be very pricey, but the technology for doing that kind
of thing has got so cheap they put it in kids toys these days.

Maybe in your condition you're eligible to get one of those free?

--
Chris Malcolm cam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx DoD #205
IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK
[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/]

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