Greg, where was your dog, during this ordeal? Was he taking the extra time to explore, or being concerned about you and your chair?
Greg, where was your dog, during this ordeal? Was he taking the extra time to explore, or being concerned about you and your chair? Have a Blessed Day, Naomi -----Original Message----- From: greg <g...@eskimo.com> To: quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Wed, Apr 28, 2010 10:05 am Subject: [QUAD-L] Unidentified subject! The other day I mentioned that I never go out by myself without my chest strap n, or without my phone. That night I took my dog for a quick pee check before ed. My chair is in the shop, so I'm in my backup. It has no chest strap. sually when I go out alone, I put a strap around my headrest and my head and ne arm. Since I was just going around the block... I didn't... nor did I take y phone. 'm part way around and my dog pees, so I turn around because it's shorter. My ear wheel slips off the sidewalk into the gravel and is stuck just a bit. My rror was I was sitting with my back to far upright. So when my chair jerks when t gets unstuck, I start to fall/tip forward. I've done this before and my eflex is to gun the chair forward to help me sit back. I stop myself / the hair, before I get to the edge, the the fast stop makes me fall forward even ore. I hit the joystick with my arm and off I go, right off the curb. Good hing was I was going forward not sideways so no tipping over. Plus my legrest it the street and stopped my chair from going further into the street. Bad news as my legrest hits the street and I make a dead stop. No momentum to help me it back up. o I'm stuck half off the curb, tipped forward on my lap, with no phone. At ight not many cars drive by. Luckily I was there only about 3-4 minutes when I eard loud taking in the school parking lot across the street. I start yelling CAN SOMEONE HELP ME" It took a minute of yelling before I heard them yelling ack that they were on there way over. A man and lady out jogging. They were so ice, he was trying to sit me back up first, but was so careful. Like he was oing to break me. Then they were able to lift my front wheels back up on the idewalk. Then they asked if I needed them to walk home with me :-) After 28 years, that was the first time going off a curb. Once my 5/6 year old iece was on my lap driving and we went off our curb going fast, but it is the urved/slopped kind. I go up/down them all the time, but I have to tilt my back o go down it, then tilt all the way up to go up the curb, but I do it very low. Greg
