First Halloween after I went to using a chair fulltime, I designed a "tank"
costume for my chair.  Used a small refrigerator box, a cake box, and a
wrapping paper tube for the body and turret, and had my sister (the radical
from Berzerkly) do the artwork.  Worked well inside, but wouldn't want to
take it outside in the Wyoming wind!

Johnson & Johnson has had some success in getting the Ibot funded by private
insurance, but very little (if any) with Medicare and Medicaid.  About a
year and a half ago, CMS talked about looking at totality of circumstances
around need for power mobility, but then McClellan left CMS for the FDA, and
it, if you'll pardon the pun, it "tanked."


On 9/5/07, Michael H. Collis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> they have "tanked chairs," Trisha.  The Problem is, we can't obtain them,
> because of Medicare's policy of "in home use only."   Any extreme chair has
> to be private;y funded.
>
> ---- Original message ----
> >Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 14:53:15 -0400
> >From: Trisha Cummings <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: Re: Beach  SNIPPIT
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >
> >Oh Meir,
> >
> >   I cracked up visualizing a tank track on a wheelchair - I couldn't
> figure out whether to put them on the sides or have someone perched on top.
> The ulitmate bully stopper - just flatten them. The picture of the track
> wheel at the site Ken sent was much tamer. Sigh.....
> >
> >                Trisha
> >
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Cerebral Palsy List [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf
> >Of Meir Weiss
> >Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 2:04 PM
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: Beach SNIPPIT
> >
> >
> >
> > like a bycycle
> >
> >TIRES  of various treads?  Or and Rubbers  ?
> >
> >And I guess a tire rim like those
> >
> >Mobile  utility dune buggies? To shovel through sand?
> >
> >Tanks can do it in afganistan!!!!!!!!!!!
> >
> >sheesh@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Cerebral Palsy List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of
> >Trisha Cummings
> >Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 13:58
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: Beach SNIPPIT
> >
> >Hi Meir,
> >
> >  Actually I was wondering about that - this summer I was able to go to
> Rehoboth
> >for some beach time - I was admiring the nice boardwalk and off ramps -
> but I
> >was wondering exactly how a non-mobile person would make it down to the
> water.
> >Sand is a bear to walk in and I don't see how a chair would be able the
> sand. Do
> >they have sand friendly chairs? - I envisioned a kind of motorized sand
> sled.
> >Rehoboth seems much more accessible than Asseateague Island which is
> National
> >Park.
> >
> >
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