Re: SECOND TRY!

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Go girl go! Sounds as if your chair is definately a great thing for

you to be able to expand the world around you again. Just like

driving a car or anything you had to learn it is going to take some

time for you to be completely comfortable with it.Practice runs will

help you gain more confidence as you go along your merry way. You are

doing fine.

We've been looking around at the different models and options as my

walking is not getting any easier. I'm the master of the

understatement on this topic. I've test driven some mobility aides

owned by folks we know to get a better idea how each of them work. So

far the chairs seem to be more ideal all around for usefulness both

outside and inside. Those speed controls are very sensitive.

Keep on rolling! We have great faith in your mastering this.

Weezie

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> Well I took my second trip out the front door in my power chair

yesterday. WHEW......... no mishaps, but it still is going to take

practise to maneuver it through the door ways. There's only about 1

inch or so clearance on both sides, so I have to be straight on to

make it in/out without running into the sides. Plus if I am going a

little fast when I stop there is a little delayed reaction and the

chair might still go ahead a few inches, just enough to run into

something if I am that close. Going down the ramp is like going down

that first dip on a rollercoaster, and really it isn't that steep,

but when you don't have much control over your body it seems

intimidating. At least the deck has the railing and fencing around it

now so thats not a problem anymore. I feel much safer.

> I was telling hubby that when you have disabilities its a whole new

world and everything has to be calculated differently than what you

were use to before. Its hard for an able bodied person to understand

it, so there are times when he doesn't understand why I feel

apprehensive about doing something. Things I use to do without a

second thought. Like even riding in the van, I have decided when we

get the conversion van it is set up to where I can ride in the center

or the front seat. I have opted to ride in the center, because riding

in front my eyes don't work to be able to go with the traffic. I

think the cars and the big semi's are the worse are coming into our

lane. Hubby is driving too fast, too close, and the speed of the

other cars are really too fast. So I think I will feel safer in the

middle where I can see more of the surroundings, and be able to have

a wider viewpoint. He's okay with it, but it will be another

adjustment we will have to get

> use to.

> Using the Power chair is like I'm going faster than I am, I think

there is a word that describes this symptom, but it all has to do

with spatial orientation. I am on the lowest setting on the chair and

I still am having a hard time steering it. BUT.......I am determined

to master it, and if anyone has any suggestions to how they adapted

to their chair please tell me. Its a tough chair so far as I've run

it into a few things and it doesn't seem to faze it.

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> Did I tell you that hubby bought me a big flat screen monitor for

my computer for my birthday 7/28? It is awesome!

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> Hope everyone is having a nice day/night, we have rain today but

its suppose to get into the high 80's for the weekend, then the 90's

during the week. We still have the deck and ramp to stain so as soon

as we get it all done I'll send pictures.  

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> p/s HAPPY BIRTHDAY to all the ones I've missed and WELCOME to all

the newcomers, I'm Jackie 58, from Oregon. [First MS symptom 1981,

dx'ed 1995]

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> Blessings and hugs, Jackie  

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