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Hi All,
Five years ago I got a new power chair and I'm just
using it everyday now. I even had the lock down bracket put on for
driving $750 This chair is going wherever it wants to. I feel like I've
been on a rollacoster when I get out of this thing at the end of the
day. I feel like it's beating me up. Four time, so far, it just
suddenly STOPS. I'm just cruising along and bam, I'm dead but it will
go again. It's possessed something. It's an Invacare Action (I think a
Ranger series) Could it be because it sat for five years?
I'm sure that didn't help. How long have you been driving when it
dies? It could be something as simple as thermal rollback. That's how
the chair protects the electronics and motors from overheating. When
they get too hot, power is killed till things cool. I think you should
have your DME give everything a good checking over.
Because it's been five years I'm entitled to get a
brand new power chair? I gave my w/c dealer a list of six things that
need to be modified to this chair, let me tell you the list. 1. new
back 2. lower canes 3. raise the chair one inch 4. new foot plates 5.
new leg rest's 6. new arm rest's. That's a lot of
modifications, isn't it?
Bobbie ~ HELP
Apparently, Medicare has gotten VERY stingy with replacing chairs. I
guess getting taken for a few billion will do that to you. Anyway, I
guess now they want you to justify monitarily replacing the chair. New
chairs are really expensive, so the things you mentioned probably
wouldn't be enough. After 6 years in my old chair, I thought it was
time for a new one. It needed a new recline motor $5300, drive motors
$900, and a legrest. A new chair for me is $30, 000 so they said no.
Medicaid ended up paying for my new chair which I hate. More on that
later.
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