Pandora.Nigh@f3.n157.z1.fidonet.org (Pandora Nigh) (12/14/90)
Index Number: 12482 Hi Barb, I will have my chair in 3-4 months. It takes that long for them to custom assemble and fit them then to ship them here. Mine will take a little longer because I have ordered a standing seat option and I'm on the short side so they have to customize the seat back to smaller. Ray's company has finaly accepted me as a dependant and will cover some of it and so will my Medicare, the rest Ray and I will have to pick up. The dealer has a payment plan that we are waiting to see how that is set-up and the intrest rate before we go that route on the leftover. If it is to high we will either pull a bank loan or use a charge card. I have to switch from my tri-cart because my condition is rapidly deteriorating. I don't have the upper torso strength to keep handling the tiller type steering and I'm no longer able to do lots of tranfers out of the tricart to a reguar chair or the sofa to be able to get my legs up. I have a real big problem with dependent edema. Also the permobile has a seating system with supports that allow me to hold off or maybe even bypass a spinal fusion. I am colapsing rapidly down and to the right. The permobile will hold my spine up in propper position and prevent and more curvature. I will also be able to get in and out of bed by myself with the permobile. Right now Ray has to get me up in the morning and then I spend all day stuck in my tri-cart with the exceptions of a few tranfers to the toilet. This has started me with a problem of pressure sores. With the permobile stand seat, the chair will go down to 180% this means that durring the day I can pull next to the bed and go flat like a gerney and roll onto the bed and then beable to move some of the muscles and joints and get some of the arthritic stiffness I have out and allow some of the edema to go down. When I want to get up I can roll onto the chair and then bring the seat to and upright position. That is my biggest problem with the bed, I can't get up to a seated postion to transfer anymore. With the automatic leg and back rest I can change those postitions bymeself any time durring the day with out having to have someone just to lift leg rests. I spend 16 to 18 hours a day in my chair and need more position shifts. The permobile suppllied this. I will really miss my tri-cart. That crazy thing takes some fantastic inclines and rugged terrain. The permobile will come closer than any of the other chairs but still not up to the Sierra. When I went to ST. Louis for the Expo we side tracked over to the Meremac Caverns and that Sierra took a 48% incline on wet stone. I never thought it would make it and it really suprised me. But I have just gotten to run down to use it well anymore and the small backed seat without any real support is killing me. I have MD limb girlde, plus arthritis it is a reall terific combo. I think with your type of CP it sounds very good that you could justify to most insurance and others the cost of the chair. Also check with your state Rehab agency they may pick up the cost if you are working or going to school. If your not at present you could always go to them anyway and start school or something. Good luck if you get a chance try one out they are really super. I have not sat in anything so comfortable in my life. Pandora -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!157!3!Pandora.Nigh Internet: Pandora.Nigh@f3.n157.z1.fidonet.org
Pandora.Nigh@f3.n157.z1.fidonet.org (Pandora Nigh) (01/08/91)
Index Number: 12678 Hi Barb, I will have my chair in 3-4 months. It takes that long for them to custom assemble and fit them then to ship them here. Mine will take a little longer because I have ordered a standing seat option and I'm on the short side so they have to customize the seat back to smaller. Ray's company has finaly accepted me as a dependant and will cover some of it and so will my Medicare, the rest Ray and I will have to pick up. The dealer has a payment plan that we are waiting to see how that is set-up and the intrest rate before we go that route on the leftover. If it is to high we will either pull a bank loan or use a charge card. I have to switch from my tri-cart because my condition is rapidly deteriorating. I don't have the upper torso strength to keep handling the tiller type steering and I'm no longer able to do lots of tranfers out of the tricart to a reguar chair or the sofa to be able to get my legs up. I have a real big problem with dependent edema. Also the permobile has a seating system with supports that allow me to hold off or maybe even bypass a spinal fusion. I am colapsing rapidly down and to the right. The permobile will hold my spine up in propper position and prevent and more curvature. I will also be able to get in and out of bed by myself with the permobile. Right now Ray has to get me up in the morning and then I spend all day stuck in my tri-cart with the exceptions of a few tranfers to the toilet. This has started me with a problem of pressure sores. With the permobile stand seat, the chair will go down to 180% this means that durring the day I can pull next to the bed and go flat like a gerney and roll onto the bed and then beable to move some of the muscles and joints and get some of the arthritic stiffness I have out and allow some of the edema to go down. When I want to get up I can roll onto the chair and then bring the seat to and upright position. That is my biggest problem with the bed, I can't get up to a seated postion to transfer anymore. With the automatic leg and back rest I can change those postitions bymeself any time durring the day with out having to have someone just to lift leg rests. I spend 16 to 18 hours a day in my chair and need more position shifts. The permobile suppllied this. I will really miss my tri-cart. That crazy thing takes some fantastic inclines and rugged terrain. The permobile will come closer than any of the other chairs but still not up to the Sierra. When I went to ST. Louis for the Expo we side tracked over to the Meremac Caverns and that Sierra took a 48% incline on wet stone. I never thought it would make it and it really suprised me. But I have just gotten to run down to use it well anymore and the small backed seat without any real support is killing me. I have MD limb girlde, plus arthritis it is a reall terific combo. I think with your type of CP it sounds very good that you could justify to most insurance and others the cost of the chair. Also check with your state Rehab agency they may pick up the cost if you are working or going to school. If your not at present you could always go to them anyway and start school or something. Good luck if you get a chance try one out they are really super. I have not sat in anything so comfortable in my life. Pandora -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!157!3!Pandora.Nigh Internet: Pandora.Nigh@f3.n157.z1.fidonet.org