You make me all warm and fuzzy Stacey. HELP, I'M TRAPPED IN THIS
BROKEN BODY - I'M GOING TO DIE IN HERE IF SOMEBODY DOESN'T GET ME OUT.
(I'm watching a Twilight Zone marathon where they are trapped in a giant waste
can at the carnival. Some gave up and accept their fate while the
sergeant fights to get out - and when he does, he finds the awful truth and
prefers to jump back into the waste can with the others.)
Rod Serling = genius.
Dave in da can.
In a message dated 12/31/2004 9:23:47 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I got my van about a month ago that was used by another para
but his chair was much smaller than mine. I am now trying to get the
work done. It's killing me I have this van that I can't drive. The
trigger on the lift to let the flap come down doesn't work, I can't pull my
chair up to the wheel cause the hole is too small, and the seat doesn't turn
around. ON top of it all, pushing a year later and the DMV still hasn't
gotten to me to decide on whether or not they'll let me have my license.
I have to get the work done to the van 3 hrs away because vocational rehab
wont do it because the van is too old with too many miles on it. There
aren't any mechanics or shops where I live that work with the agency that I
use for the waiver program in my area. It feels like there isn't an end
in sight. I know there is. I just pray after paying out so much
money to put it on the road this is will all pay off. I don't know how I
am surviving financially. I can't even ride in the damn thing because
the tie downs in the back are in another little hole in the back where my
chair doesn't fit. Say a prayer for me everyone because since my friends
car got totaled, I am barely going anywhere and I am starting to get super
depressed from not getting out and doing anything.
Stacy
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 8:37
PM
Subject: [QUAD-L] the bionic man
I drove my van for the 1st time today. I had a transfer seat,
hand controls, and door opener installed. The xfr seat is a bit
awkward to use but the other stuff is way cool. It goes up/down,
back/fwd, and turns up to 90 degrees. Sliding over and back is a pain
but my driving will be the exception anyway. I don't mind being
chauffeured. There are 4 magnetic switches in my tail light housing to
operate the door and lift. Up, Down, Stow, and
Close. A battery is now much more critical to my survival - oh
joy. More mechanical crap that can kill me. Stranded in a dark
van in June, July, or August in Phoenix is no place to be. I'll be
keepiong my cell phone very handy from now on.
Dave
The
moral flabbiness born of the bitch goddess Success. That- with the squalid
cash interpretation put on the word success- is our national disease.
-William James
1906
The
moral flabbiness born of the bitch goddess Success. That- with the squalid cash
interpretation put on the word success- is our national disease. -William
James 1906
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