Two months without a motorized chair.

[capri0mni]

(BTW, I'm sticking with my default icon because I can't decide between and )

Okay. This coming Sunday (February 11th), it will have been exactly two months since my old motorized chair bit the dust, and it's getting damned old.

It's not just that I'm slower in the manual chair, or, because of my spasticity, I have to stop every few pushes on the wheels to scoot myself back in my seat. It's that the seat of my manual chair is at least an inch (maybe even two inches) lower than the seat of my motorized chair. One or two inches may not sound like a lot. And it's really not, when talking about people's height when they're walking down the street. But those of you who've worked desk jobs know what a big difference one or two inches can make if your desk chair is that much too low, when it comes to being able to type comfortably, or write in a notebook.

Now imagine if you're two inches too low for everything you do, all day long. I'm finding it mentally wearing. Especially since it has come at a time, thanks to my father's death, that I have a whole lot of vitally important papers I have to take care of, and I'm finding it literally that much harder to "stay on top of everything." Even after charging my old motorized chair, I could always feel the psychological boost when I regained those two inches after just one day ... two months of this has been wearing on my mind like the steady drip of water on a stone. Two inches, if they are critical two inches, may as well be two feet.

I don't really have a point, I guess, except to get that off my chest.

Comments

[spooforbrains.livejournal.com]

Ugh, it must be such a bastard. Is there no chance of you being able to get a new chair?

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

I've got a new chair on order... It may take another month or two to arrive, though.

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's ridiculous.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

And that's even with me paying for it myself. If I'd applied for Medicarre reimbursement, it would have taken even longer (which is the main reason I didn't apply).

[jekesta]

OH, DUDE. That's awful, I had no idea you still didn't have one. ::hugs:: I can't imagine how frustrating it must be.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Oh, believe me: when my new chair gets here, I will post a mahoosive HOOO-RAAAAY post in this here LJ. You won't be able to miss it. :-)

[uncacreamy.livejournal.com]

I understand this completely. Are you getting your motorized chair back?

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

My old motor chair had a "complete metal breakdown," even more literally than the little cybermats in Tomb of the Cyberman (the control, which translates the instructions from the joystick and transfers them to the motors, is thoroughly corroded). The old chair ain't coming back. I'm still waiting for the new chair to arrive (see my reply to spooforbrains). It will be spiffy, though, when it does arrive...