11:44am April 8, 2014

I can’t wait…

So my wheelchair cushions are here, both the seat and the back. The back cushion has a board on it to prevent the sling seat from bowing backwards. Both cushions are gel and very comfortable. My yellow duct tape arrived yesterday, my brown duct tape arrived today – they’re for decorating the wheelchair, since it’s kind of a boring black color. And now the wheelchair is on a UPS truck out for delivery, and I'm completely excited and somewhat impatient about it getting here. I don’t know whether there’s assembly required or not. I just know I can’t wait to start getting my body in shape to push a manual chair again.

And this is the first manual chair I’ve ever had, with the right size wheels. My legs are short and normally they’d make the wheels shorter so my feet could reach the ground. But it’s hard to push a chair with small wheels, compared to a chair with big wheels. So I’m really excited about having a chair with normal size wheels.

There’s all kinds of features that I want, but have to wait for because I can’t afford them all at once. They include:

Elevating legrests.
Collapsible IV pole (for my tube feedings).
Oxygen rack
Cane/crutch holder

And probably others I’m not remembering at the moment. I’m excited at the prospect of adding those and other features as time goes on. But for now I just can’t wait to be whizzing around the hallways completely self-propelled for once.

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