I know of 3 repair shops here, I assume there are others, but I've only been to 3. It just seems like they should have common parts (batteries, tires) in stock.
And they should take some compassion class to understand what our chair mean to us and how fast we need repairs. My insurance will only go through Preferred Medical. At the 1st of Jan they switched from Apria. I understand everyone needs to start somewhere, but have the new guys be monitored by a supervisor. I can have them pick up my chair for repair, but that means a few extra days without my main chair. My backup chair is OK, but no batteries. When I got my new batteries I was going to put the used ones from my TDX5 into my TDX3 backup. But they are much smaller. The guy said they might work, but might not work perfectly or as long. I'm still in my TDX5 main chair even without the tilt, just recline for pressure releases. I never thought it would be so bad. My shoulders are killing me. When I just use the recline it pulls me down a bit and the "trunk" supports or rib pads that keep me straight get into my arm pits. I'm going to see of someone can put my old batteries into my backup chair tomorrow. If not, I'll bring it to an auto tire/battering shop up the street. Greg _____ I can't put my body through all of that transferring for a myriad of reasons. Whenever I have had a chair repair over the last 8 years down here a little under two hours from you, Greg, I have stayed in bed while my husband takes the chair down. We have three vendors here in town and, depending upon the repair, we go to all three of them depending on what is going wrong.
