I feel for you Lori...you have been thru an awful lot and still are under a lot
of stress, I hope and pray things get better for you this year! I can't hardly
imagine trying to get by without my wife-caregiver....I only hope I pass before
her. My syrinx is getting worse also, my pains get so bad I can hardly get
more than 3 or 4 hours of sleep each night total....It used to be that I could
go to bed and get some sleep and relief but not so much these days. talk to
you later, Dan H**
On Monday, January 2, 2017 9:16 PM, Lori Michaelson
<[email protected]> wrote:
I have not but I loved my Fortress Scientific wheelchair which I don't think
they have any more but it was a chair whereby it never got any wounds and the
back was so much more comfortable than the cheap slim ones that are put on
chairs. I had it before I had my Permobil Chairman (which also had only 2
tires) and a much thicker back.
It was September 2011 when I got my Permobil M 300 but it needed someone it
just ones that they were still adjusting at when my husband was alive and after
he passed away my life fell apart.
Since I got my Stage III will in 2009 that put me in bed most of 2009 and 2010
and afterward I have, ever since, been at risk for skin breakdown because I
have had one wound in 2004 that wasn't as bad but still left a scar in the same
place. Therefore my left iscial tuberocity it is highly prone to shearing and
leading to skin breakdown when going over any type of bumps in the chair or in
my van. I have to be really careful and that is why I don't care for the 6
wheels anymore because it is just 2 more wheels to go over bumps and put me at
risk for breakdown.
I have had many times a vendor to try and make the back to my Permobil M 300
much more comfortable and softer and after trying many times... they never
could. My back is just in so much pain because of Posttraumatic Syringomyelia
and has only gotten worse. Then on December 13 my back got hurt even worse
where my pain is located and it looks like I am willing to have to go to a
neurologist to find out what is wrong.
Just great as I was fine before December 13 with my pain under control. in
addition to me having to find a specialized urologist to get my urinary leakage
around my catheter under control whereby it was damaged so badly around
February 1, 2016 mile was fine before then.
I never ever had so many medical problems since losing my husband included in
the Psychogenic Epileptic Seizures that began after losing him. It was just
such a traumatic loss for me. Hell, I had never had any type of seizures before
his passing. At first we thought it was a one-time happening but after my
stress got worse in March of 2013 and was not long afterward that a nurse of
mine was talking to me and my family (my living with my sister and
brother-in-law) telling us her type of seizures which were caused exactly by
the ones that I began to have (traumatic loss of a loved one, getting
overtired, having pain, getting stressed or all of them combined on a specific
day which has been nonstop after losing my husband).
Because I was not going to be thrown into a nursing home (all that was
available to me in the area I was from and/or are nearby my family) I pursued
moving back to Arizona which I loved and so many different ways and put in an
online live-in caregiver as I had nothing to loose and found a wonderful one!
Only for all hell to break loose just two weeks after moving here and trying to
rebuild my life because I fall in between the cracks financially for care.
Why am I saying all of this and what does it have to do with chairs? I haven't
had time to pursue another chair alone pursue anyone to come and look at my
chair if something were to happen to it. When I was living with my sister and
brother-in-law my brother-in-law kept my Permobil Chairman charged every six
months (it was in storage). In case I ever wanted to go back to it. It moved
with me but because we were overwhelmed with things to do the chair did not get
charged and now the batteries are dead.
Now that my pain and leakage is so bad... the last thing I have time for is
looking for another chair. Or looking into getting a new batteries for my old
chair (Permobil Chairman) that has only 2 wheels (back wheel drive). I DO like
the mid-wheel wheel drive to my current Permobil M 300 but other than that I
miss the comfort backing to my Permobil Chairman but that's about it. I can't
even tilt back for longer than 5 or 10 minutes ever since I got the chair
because it only exacerbates my back pain. Fortunately I've never had a problem
with PRESSURE ... my wounds were caused by medical professionals failing me. I
have to sit up straight and sit on my thighs instead of my tail bone and that
is why I have avoided pressure problems.
Whatever happened to me in December 13 putting in so much more pain through a
big area of my back has caused me much lower endurance and spasms like I have
never had before. Of course I am looking into it with a neurologist but I just
can't deal with all of this at the same time. I keep hoping it will go away but
it seems to be getting worse. I ensure they will require an MRI and
unfortunately my family never kept my previous MRIs (wherever my husband put
them... no one found them) and I haven't needed one since 1999. My husband
through nothing away but they were somehow lost.
Good luck in your search along with Greg!!!
On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 7:33 PM, Danny Hearn <[email protected]> wrote:
Have any of you ever owned a 21st century scientific power chair? the make
strong looking chairs such as the Bounder that can go 11.6 mph and also off
road chairs too. Dan H**
On Monday, January 2, 2017 8:17 PM, RONALD L PRACHT
<[email protected]> wrote:
I own a p-222 . I believe that is a package above the standard. Its a tough,
fast chair though.
ron
On Monday, January 2, 2017 5:42 PM, greg <[email protected]> wrote:
These are the chairs I'm thinking of. I haven't had rear wheel in 25
years.Does anyone know if the P-222 is standard 8.5 or that a speed package?
Quickie P-222, Rear 8.5Quickie Mid, QM-720Permobil M300 Mid, 6-7.5 Thx, Greg
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