I seem to have gotten much more tippy as I've gotten older.
I use to drive my chair out and about as fast as I could go, sitting up
straight, with no chest strap. I would accidentally fall forward onto my lap
and not be able to sit back up once every year or so. But over the years it has
really gotten bad. I have to tilt my chair back quite a bit every time I do
anything so I don't fall forward. All I have to do is move my arms forward to
type or brush my teeth and I fall forward. I don't dare go out by myself
without my chest strap on. Just hitting a bump going out my door can make me
tip forward. Once I'm tipped, I can't get back up. If my chair is in tilt mode
I can use the joystick to tilt back and then rock myself up. I tried getting an
extra set of tilt switches put on the front of my chair to use if I fell
forward, but the repair shop said this system can only use the joystick and 1
set of buttons to control the tilt/recline/seat/legrest options. I use a 4
button switch on my lateral support to control everything.
Anyone else get so tippy after 25 years. Greg
