Hope you get your power chair back soon, Gary. What a bummer. Kat ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Peterson" <[log in to unmask]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.c-palsy To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 9:05 PM Subject: Up and around > Hi all!! > > So while I'm waiting for my eletric chair to get fixed on Monday, my > staff found me a manual chair that I could sit up fairley comfortibly > in. > > For those of you might not know, I suddenly got really sick after > comming home from work on Monday. As my luck would have it, I got > sick at a time when I didn't have staff here. > > So I called for help, and someone got to me in about 10 minutes or so. > But they were just a minute or 2 to late. By the time they got here I > had already gotton sick in my chair. > > For many reasons I won't go into, as a result of all this, my > spicalized seeting system in my chair has to be replaced. > > So bottom line here is, I thought I was going to be stuck in my bed > alll weekend. But staff came to my resku!! Only draw back is, > becausee it's a menual chair, I'm not able to push myself. Not eveen > from rom to room. > > So I'm stuck here with staff 24-7 this weekend. I may end up going > totaly crazy because of it, but it's a hell of a lot better then being > stuck in bed till early Monday afternoon when I should have the > seeting in my E-chair fully restored. > > For those of you who I made plans with this weekend, sorry, but I > godda cancil for now. This chair I'm in is OK for here in the house, > but as far as getting in my van &going somewhere, it's just waaay to > flimsy. > > I'm sort of limited as far as how long I can stay up in this thing > too. So if ya don't much Email from me the next few days that's why. > So I'll keep yawal updated. > > See ya kids!!-Gary