Thursday, 3, February, 2011. Good At Solving Problems.

Cadavre Exquis - 1997

Acrylic on canvas
Painting made by Leonora Carrington with collaboration of
Pablo Weisz-Carrington.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonora_Carrington

http://weisz-carrington.tripod.com/id18.htm

This morning at 08.30 Harm from Welzorg came round to collect my wheelchair to 

 repair it.

At 11.47 Richie and I were both extremely surprised when Harm was back with the wheelchair.

Neither of us had expected the wheelchair to come back today, let alone earlier than 13.00 which had been agreed.

Amazingly it was not only back, but it seemed to be well adjusted for the table to be pulled right out without hitting me in the face.

When Richie had hoisted me into the wheelchair, he could effortlessly and safely put the table in front of me.

Then we discovered that it was listing to one side, as well as resting on my right knee, which could cause a pressure sore.

Luckily Richie is good at solving problems, so he made some adjustments which raised the table and straightened it too.

Tomorrow we have a 14.0 appointment with Michelle my last advisor who organised the adaption to the wheelchair seat and getting the wheelchair table.

Richie wants her advice how best to adjust the left arm support which is now on inch too low right now.

Once that is done then the wheelchair table will have been well adjusted for me to use safely

I Will Get The Hang Of It Soon.

Ubu Imperator.
Max Ernst.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Ernst

Today has been one of those days, started at 08.00 with my wheelchair being collected so the new steering could be installed.

Richie took his bike off for the gears to be mended and came back and not long after he hoisted me out of bed.

After Richie gave me a great shower and I was dressed, we were expecting Annelies advisor from the council and Harm from Welzorg to arrive.

Just as I was brushing my teeth the phone rang and it was Annelies telling me they would be a little late, they arrived an hour later.

When they got here with the wheelchair, Richie put me in it and I tried to steer with the steering right in front of me on a Perspex table attached to th wheelchair.

I found it very difficult to steer at first and was not keen at all about it, worried me for abit, could not work out how or why it felt so bad.

Then Richie pointed out that as there were no arm supports, I had to hold my shoulders, this was causing me a lot of stress and pain.

This will be solved by the steering mechanism being installed into my own Perspex wheelchair table with arm supports.

I will test it out tomorrow when I have to go to the hospital for the first catheter change, which is quite handy as it will give me an opportunity to test the steering.

This evening I am very tired after this afternoon and getting so upset by the new steering,hope I will get the hang of it soon, sure I will.

Good Day Today.

Soleil couchant à Ivry (Sunset at Ivry.

Armand Gullaumin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Guillaumin

 The supra pubic catheter operation went very well, but so very tired afterwards and my eyes did not work well but are thankfully ok again today.

Really thought I was going blind, have heard about operations taking it out of you and causing MS to get worse but not my eyes, surely not now..

Glad I am not going blind, was a big shock last night when I suddenly all at once saw very little, had to use size 18 fonts to see anything, gave me a very bad shock.

Had a huge panic attack, Richie tried to reassure me that it was probably extreme exhaustion.

He was right; today my eyes are ok once again, which is brilliant, as I do not have to get too worried about my eyes right now.

The other good news is that Spike’s wheelchair will be here this week Thursday so hopefully Spike will be able to have a lot of fun with it.

The other good news is that the extra steering has been installed on the back of the wheelchair.

I am also going to get steering put right in the middle of my Perspex wheelchair table, so that I can use it to steer with both hands.

Which will fold away flat when I am not using and want to use my laptop or eat, think its good to use my hands for as long as possible.