Deb (and Deri),

I have a swing-away joystick on my chair that was an add-on.  I use a
Jazzy 1122, but here's info from a vendor for the P-500.  The web site
shows configuration options for the chair, and the options include
swing-away joysticks and/or armrests.

http://www.spinlife.com/critpath/spec.cfm?productID=399

I'm sure that you could get the options as after-market additions, as
well as adding them if you ordered a new chair.


Kendall Corbett

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

-----Original Message-----
From: Dufour, Deb RQHR (by way of Deri James
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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 12:08 PM
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Subject: Power wheelchair joystick question

Amanda is a 12 year old girl who drives a power wheelchair (quickie
p500)
with a joystick.   Because the joystick itself is so bulky, she cannot
drive
up close enough to a table in the kitchen or at school.   If her
joystick is
flipped out of the way, she can be manually pushed into place, but we
are
looking to keep Amanda as independent as possible!

Have any of you come up to this same problem?

Does anyone know of a mini-joystick type idea that would be able to be
plugged into her regular joystick, so that when the big joystick is
flipped
out of the way, she would be able to sneak up to the table surface using
the
smaller joystick?

Any advice, comments or ideas would be greatly appreciated!!!!
Thanks,
Deb