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
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Internet: Pandora.Nigh@f3.n157.z1.fidonet.orgPandora.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
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