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Kathy, why don't you get a light weight rigid frame? They are very easy to
reconfigure and some of them only weigh 19 lbs. I am sure you'd get an easy
push out of them...
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Cerebral Palsy List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Meir Weiss
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 7:52 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Wheelchair
For later
No no I hear you
If the chair is not......EASILY "reconfigurable to suit your tasks
It is not for you
m
-----Original Message-----
From: Cerebral Palsy List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Kathleen Salkin
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 07:49
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Wheelchair
Problems are:
1) I don't like the tilted back - it's more difficult to push when tilted
back a
bit.
2) The back wheels are too far back, thereby requiring me to push in shorter
strokes and therefore more pushes just to get where I want to go.
3) The footrests are two low down and can't be adjusted any further to
accomodate my short legs.
4) The armrests are not flip-back so I can't get closer to a table or desk
w/o
completely removing the arms.
I could write more but I have to get out of here and go to work.
Later!
Kat
On 31 Aug 2006, at 07:34, Meir Weiss wrote:
Umm
Can I do a little research before you move to a FINAL DESCISION
Can you send me full details re the chair you are having problems with?
-----Original Message-----
From: Cerebral Palsy List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Kathleen Salkin
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 07:13
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Wheelchair
Hey, y'all -
I'd like to bend the ear of you manual wheelchair users. I am in the
market
for a new chair. My brother-in-law was so kind and tried to help me by
buying
me a Guardian Escort chair which has turned out to be a rather hard chair to
use. The basic problem is, it seems to be a chair designed more for someone
to
push a person in it, rather than for the user to push himself. The back
wheels
are too far back and the back is angled backwards which drives me crazy.
I loved my B-I-L and he's a real sweetheart and I hate to disappoint him but
I
need to find something else and I see two chairs that are possibilities at
spinlife.com:
http://www.spinlife.com/critpath/spec.cfm?productID=115
http://www.spinlife.com/Sunrise-/-Quickie-Breezy-Ultra-4-Lightweight-
Wheelchair/spec.cfm?productID=74650
Has anyone used either of these two chairs? What was your experience -
positive or negative?
Many thanks!
Kat
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