>One of my friends recently had their first ever proper trip outside in a powerchair. They aren’t new to disability (like me they are lifelong disabled) but the wheelchair is a recent addition to their life and the powerchair even more so. They sent me an e-mail telling me how well they had done but that they’d had 1 specific issue with it – it hadn’t been able to handle a the gradient of a moveable ramp into a restaurant. I’ve been in that place (although only in my manual) and I think it should have been doable.
Month: November 2009
>Medical Bits
>I saw the practice nurse today about my weight. It went well and she’s pleased (I think) and so am I.
>Up 1
>I am up a pound this week. And also a day late weighing as the scales weren’t working yesterday. I thought they needed new batteries but the display started working again so I dunno what happened.
>Winner!
>Official validation and the lovely purple verified winner bars aren’t available for a few more days but the brilliant news is too good to share! I’ve gone from a blue progress bar (under 50K) to a green one!
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>I am tired right now but I want to get this done sooner than later. Plus I’m not sure I’m tired as such as fried my brain. We shall see.
>Strange Weekend
>The ads on googlemail are both interesting and a little unsettling at times.
>Can’t blog, writing.
>Just a quickie – NaNoWriMo is going well after I had a complete crisis on confidence on Thursday over it. Everyone in the Oxfordshire forum on their was lovely and encouraging. And I also posted a thread in the “NaNoWriMo Ate My Soul” forum too and a couple of people from there were lovely too.
>Remembrance Day
>We got to IKEA on Sunday a bit before 11. We’d had a chance to get in there, go to the loo and start looking at the first room set up or two. I called my mum over to look at a unit I liked and we were trying to figure out if it would fit in the space.
>Wheelchair Comments
>My brother saw my new manual chair for the first time at the weekend. His comment? “It’s very wide.”
>Going Down!
>Brief check in for the Healthy You Challenge this week.
- Managed one day with NO CHOCOLATE at all
- Managed another with NO COKE at all and without feeling overally ill
- Have a sinusitis type thing going on
- Keep having nose bleeds
- Made healthier choices on most days in the past week
- Drinking more water
- Wheeled myself all the way around IKEA for three whole hours on Sunday
- Did a fair amount of walking at my parents house on Saturday.