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| Posted on 2009-07-01 01:38:15 |
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wheelchair ,
disability ,
financial ,
tire
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Ugh, wheelchair tire blew and I have no spareOk, that is no fun! I'm sitting there then all of a sudden a strange hiss of air. Looked down and my tire is flat. Ok, yeah I know tires go flat, but there is something unsettling about a tire going flat in your wheelchair. I don't have a spare and can't afford to get one.
When a tire goes flat on your bike and you can walk it home. Goes flat on the road...well you can still sit in your car comfortably till help arrives. When it goes flat on your chair you can't sit in it, you can't move as easily as you could 2 minutes ago and suddenly your whole life is turned upside down. This is a first experience for me and I don't like it.
It's hard for me to use other chairs to sit in, transferring is extremely painful on my knees and hips. I have great difficulty getting out of any chair, but with my trusty wheelchair I can push the chair towards my legs as I'm trying to stand so my legs don't wobble so much which reduces the pain and stabilizes my legs which reduces the risk of collapse.
Wow...when a tire goes flat you really do realize just how much that piece of equipment has helped you and how totally lost you are without it. Amy set me up with her office chair...I can't move the chair! My legs can't push the chair backwards or pull it forward. My insurance payment bounced this month and my trash payment is late again, yet again I planned on money that didn't come in so now I have late fees that will hurt my budget for July. We are eating ramen and veggies till payday cuz again I budgeted on money I thought was coming in and now my freaking tire blows out on me! I did not need this.
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| Posted on 2009-04-17 06:47:21 |
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family ,
medical ,
disability ,
donation ,
raok ,
accessibility
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Ramp Build Next Saturday!I got this email today
------- Original Message --------
Subject:
cripple critter ramp
Date:
Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:18:03 -0400
Becky, We are planning on putting the deck together for you on the 25 of
April we are to meet at your house at 9 AM. I am hoping that Clifton
and his guys will have your door in well before that. maybe this
weekend. the door out of your yard this weekend too.
Rick
This is great news! I just request a payout of some donated funds from MicroGiving.com because we wanted to get the plumbing fixed in the bathroom nearest my bedroom. The ramp will be going from the door of my bedroom into the kennel, my office is across the kennel yard in another building. Once this ramp is in, I will have mobility access to/from my office and once we finish the plumbing in the bathroom we can tap more funds from our recipient account on MicroGiving.com to put in a 3 foot door from my bedroom to bathroom. With my bed in my room there is no room for a wheelchair to move around. It is a small bedroom. I can get into my room but the chair would be parked there and I can use my walker inside. The problem has been my walker doesn't fit through the doorways, and the bathroom that is just on the other side of my bedroom wall had a huge plumbing error that ruined floors and walls. We had to cut and stop up the plumbing to stop the flood. We had, a while ago repaired much of the bathroom floor and took out one of the damaged walls. Well that damaged wall we took out is just the right size to put in a door, and with the funds I just got I can fix the tub plumbing and get a hand held shower assembly. I already have a shower chair.
This is coming together in perfect timing and I am so excited to have safer access to my room and soon an accessible bathroom too.
Many thanks to the members and supporters of Dixie Thunder of Aiken County and MicroGiving for understanding my situation and helping me to become independent.
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