you can purchase ilastic from any shop where fancy items are sold. you can
yourself tight the ilastic. there is no special technique or accessibility
is to be adopted in this matter.
----- Original Message -----
From: "payal jethra" <[email protected]>
To: "accessindia" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 10:22 PM
Subject: [AI] Cane Crisis!
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Friends,
Greetings to one and all!
For a week and a half now, I have been faced with a problem with two
of my mobility canes in pieces.
The last time the elastic of the cane gave way, a friend of mine was
kind enough to buy me one when she visited NAB Worli. And I put away
the broken one hoping to learn from someone how to fix it some day
rather than find myself stranded without a mobility cane again.
Unfortunately, before I had a chance to or was I careless in not
noticing the passage of time, in a couple of months, the elastic of
the new cane snapped out of the blue scattering the pipes in the air.
Before my eye pressure increased, causing damage to the optic nerve
due to Glaucoma, I had sight enough to move around without a cane.
But, since I began using the mobility stick, it has very much become a
part of my life. I felt sort of incomplete walking down to the
rickshaw stand on my way to work each morning with my right hand
holding a bunch of pipes fastened together rather than my mobility
companion that keeps me secure with the knowledge that the next step I
take will be on assured flat concrete. Having had no formal training
in mobility as such, I use the cane with a few techniques that
visually challenged friends have shared with me.
Now, I find myself left with two canes, both in pieces and tied with
the elastic to hold them together. A colleague at work was kind enough
to fix three of the four pipes that go into making the entire mobility
stick, with three white pipes. Although this temporary cane, without
the lowermost red pipe, is too short for me, I must make do with it
for a while till I reach Worli on a week day, after work, but before
the workshop closes, to get both white canes fixed. Having had help
from regular rickshaw drivers and BEST bus drivers the last ten days,
as they park bang outside my Bank Branch to enable me avoid the heavy
traffic and crowds which often characterise station roads, I have been
lucky in getting past this cane crisis.
What I wish you, friends to throw light on is the following queries:
Does a cane get affected due to the way it is handled?
Are there varieties in a simple metal/plastic red-white cane that I
should be looking out for?
Is there a technique that can be learnt to fix elastic so I shouldn't
have to fret about travelling all the way to Worli to have my stick
fixed?
Is there a place on the Western suburbs of Mumbai where I could get
help with a broken cane or is Worli NAB the only option?
On a lighter note...
Is it the way I handle my cane?
Or does it wear away through winter sun or showers of rain!
Regards,
Payal Jethra
Phone: 7303448295
Skype: payal.jethra
We are blessed in life with friends who are both mirrors and shadows:
Mirrors always reflect the truth and shadows are forever by our side!
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