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ken barber <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:
Wed, 5 Sep 2007 16:40:38 -0700
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good costume. 

--- "Kendall D. Corbett" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> 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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> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
> Kendall
> 
> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
> redundant!)
> 
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
> unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
> Therefore, all progress
> depends on the unreasonable man.
> 
> -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
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