Greg,
Any upper body ability? Personally, i take my dog for a run, but am tilted
maybe 10-15degrees. Trust me, not saying "pick urself up" but can u AND ur
chair do it?
Eric W Rudd
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----- Original Message -----
From: "greg" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 5:09 PM
Subject: [QUAD-L] Tippy
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
