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ysobelSo my chair is suddenly making LOUD GRINDING NOISES (and not properly moving) when I try to tilt back.
We are not talking office chair here, remember. Wheelchair. Spend all day in it. And tilting back is the only way I can a) get seated far enough back (I am not in danger of falling out or anything but my legs are half off the chair), b) get recentered if I am too tilty, c) relieve pressure on butt/legs, d) relax my spine enough to stretch it out a little (probably a misphrasing since there is enough bone crap that I doubt the spine stretches, but it feels like it does, and pops a little, and gets happier, and I can only do it if I am horizontal), and e) generally be in any way comfortable.
...I am thankful that it broke in neutral position, rather than in tilted position; there was one time that it broke while tilted all the way back, and getting me out was a sort of nightmare. But. This is epically not good.
Even "better"? My backup chair (which is nowhere near as fitted to current access needs) is completely and totally and in all other ways dead. Not just battery-is-low dead: won't-turn-on dead. And the charger, if I plug it into that chair, doesn't react at all.
/thumps head against wall a lot/
ETA: This is not related to the previous except for my reaction to it, but -- okay, brief backstory: I do not have job. I am on social security, and also on IHSS (in-home support services) which pays for part of my attendant care. They re-evaluate every year, and the most recent evaluation cut the available hours I get from 200, which is pretty much what I was using, to 140 or something like that. The official reason was because I have roommates (and I tried to point out that hello *disabled* roommates; on a practical level the amount of care hours I need has not changed), but I suspect budget issues were part of it. Now? They are reducing it by a set percentage because the state is out of money. Which on the one hand, not really a surprise in any way, but on the other hand, MY NEEDS HAVE NOT CHANGED. /fumes/
We are not talking office chair here, remember. Wheelchair. Spend all day in it. And tilting back is the only way I can a) get seated far enough back (I am not in danger of falling out or anything but my legs are half off the chair), b) get recentered if I am too tilty, c) relieve pressure on butt/legs, d) relax my spine enough to stretch it out a little (probably a misphrasing since there is enough bone crap that I doubt the spine stretches, but it feels like it does, and pops a little, and gets happier, and I can only do it if I am horizontal), and e) generally be in any way comfortable.
...I am thankful that it broke in neutral position, rather than in tilted position; there was one time that it broke while tilted all the way back, and getting me out was a sort of nightmare. But. This is epically not good.
Even "better"? My backup chair (which is nowhere near as fitted to current access needs) is completely and totally and in all other ways dead. Not just battery-is-low dead: won't-turn-on dead. And the charger, if I plug it into that chair, doesn't react at all.
/thumps head against wall a lot/
ETA: This is not related to the previous except for my reaction to it, but -- okay, brief backstory: I do not have job. I am on social security, and also on IHSS (in-home support services) which pays for part of my attendant care. They re-evaluate every year, and the most recent evaluation cut the available hours I get from 200, which is pretty much what I was using, to 140 or something like that. The official reason was because I have roommates (and I tried to point out that hello *disabled* roommates; on a practical level the amount of care hours I need has not changed), but I suspect budget issues were part of it. Now? They are reducing it by a set percentage because the state is out of money. Which on the one hand, not really a surprise in any way, but on the other hand, MY NEEDS HAVE NOT CHANGED. /fumes/
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Date: 2011-01-03 12:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-03 01:01 am (UTC)I did a joystick invocation for you, and am keeping my fingers crossed.
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Date: 2011-01-03 01:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-03 04:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-03 08:37 am (UTC)Good lord. You poor person. That chair breakage sounds really really bad for more than just one reason, and especially because you can't get comfortable. I've had to sit in uncomfortable places. I can take my feeling, multiply by a thousand and it'd be a pale comparison. I hope it's fixed really really soon.
*Hugs you*