Hey Greg, Been thinking about your breathing problems. Is it harder to breathe when you lie flat? Are you sure this isn't cardiac related?
On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 2:27 PM Greg <g...@eskimo.com> wrote: > > I think I might be a little psychic. I wrote the below message about 2 > hours ago on my tablet so I can use the voice typing easier. Then I forward > it to my Facebook, then copy it to an email. But before I could send it, I > got stuck AGAIN. This time I was out front and I hit my recline button, but > when I let go, it kept reclining. Then none of the buttons work. I was able > to yell and get help, but nothing they could do. I had to call the fire > department so they could get me inside and into bed. There's no way my > reclining chair would fit around the corners. But the fireman played around > with the wires and it started working. Thank God. I'd hate to be stuck in > bed for who knows how long. I'd have to get a prescription, send it to the > repair place, get the appointment, have them look at it, order parts, then > schedule another appointment to have it fixed. I hate dealing with > insurance. Being that you need a wheelchair you should just be able to go > straight up there without all that waiting. > > This was my earlier message. > > I was sitting out front today, I decided to put the smell set of weight on > my wrist. I had an iced coffee in one hand and I hit the recline button > with the other. But when I tried to hit the recline button to sit back up > my fingers got caught in the recline button cable. With a little extra > weight on my hand I was not able to get to the button. I tried to use my > other hand to hook on the armrest for leverage, but it slipped off and my > hand went to my shoulder with the coffee cup upside down. Luckily I was > able to knock the coffee cup off my hand and hook my arm rest for better > Leverage and got to my recline button. Lucky it didn't take too long it's > about a hundred degrees out and who knows how long I would have laid there. > > Got me thinking, I think I've been stuck like that or similar 3 times. > Been stuck in gravel many times but not like that. Once I was on my way > home and I tipped forward and couldn't sit back up. I laid with my head in > my lap until a bicyclist came by and helped me to sit up. Another time > would like today without the weights, but I was stuck I could reach the > button, and yelled until finally a neighbor heard me. I think the worst > one, was when I was going out the back door one wheel went over the > threshold the the bump made me fall forward, and I was jammed in the > doorway, it was about a hundred ten degrees out. I was there for so long > and got overheated. At least I've learned to always wear my chest strap > even when I'm home and families in the house. I just can't yell loud enough. > > Greg >
