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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 9, 2022 12:57:44 GMT
The new car, a wheelchair accessible vehicle, is here!
The forum's disability aid fan is on her way to inspect it....
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 9, 2022 13:06:19 GMT
I shall inspect it shortly.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 9, 2022 13:16:58 GMT
We might even have a ride in it to a shop....
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Post by Shockprowl on Dec 9, 2022 13:34:03 GMT
No scoping out babes outside the mall.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 17, 2023 13:02:36 GMT
Can I pin the damage to my stairlift, and thus the cost of repairing it, on anyone else I wonder?
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Oct 17, 2023 14:20:33 GMT
Was it being used suspiciously after consumption of eggs recently?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 17, 2023 15:13:15 GMT
It's odd you should mention that ....
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 17, 2023 15:34:44 GMT
It was working fine!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 17, 2023 18:39:46 GMT
We left Ralph in the house alone with it on Sunday morning....
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 17, 2023 20:20:12 GMT
You did what?
I hardly think Ralph can be blamed if he was left without his responsible adults.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 17, 2023 21:36:38 GMT
I only played with Phil's robots!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 17, 2023 22:42:04 GMT
Do you have any witnesses for this likely story?
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Oct 18, 2023 7:01:08 GMT
I don't think a robot can be a legal witness yet.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 18, 2023 9:05:16 GMT
I AM NOT NIGEL SLATER!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 18, 2023 17:56:25 GMT
Was a risk assessment carried out I ask myself.
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Post by Shockprowl on Oct 18, 2023 17:58:17 GMT
And did it pass through an MDT Panel?
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 18, 2023 18:04:07 GMT
Isn't that what you make cupboards out of?
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Post by Shockprowl on Oct 18, 2023 20:42:49 GMT
no
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 13, 2024 22:19:05 GMT
Ooops
Fall on the call walking to the door to brew up & put bath on.
Ended up in a pile on the floor, completely overwhelmed, having difficulty talking, in a draft. Not good.
Couldn't make myself heard to the call, let alone shout for Liz. Was just fortunate she came up the stairs.
Got L to apologise to call and log off. That took the call noise out the equation and gave my brain enough to work out how to move
Had hoped to get back on but but Game Over :-(
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 14, 2024 5:09:54 GMT
Oh no, sorry to hear this.  Have a slow, careful and incident-free Sunday. Martin |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 14, 2024 13:14:22 GMT
A fall is a fall, it happens.
I think the thing that's bothering me was quite how overwhelmed I was on the floor and unable to draw attention to myself to get help. Nobody else's fault just couldn't call out
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 14, 2024 13:20:32 GMT
Have you considered a technological solution to that particular problem?
Martin
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jan 14, 2024 13:31:25 GMT
An emergency button could be good?
And preferably not a direct neurolink to the Borg Collective.
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Post by legios on Jan 14, 2024 18:22:57 GMT
An emergency button could be good? I had a similar thought. Even if it was just a thing that set off a light and a buzzer on a device Liz could have so that you could summon assistance. Karl |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 1, 2024 12:09:50 GMT
Incident at Dentist this morning.
The entrance way to my dentist has an "Airlock" of sorts, with a door opening out to the street, a door opening from the waiting room into the airlock and a step down. The space inside the airlock is smaller than an old phone box,just about large enough for one of the doors to swing into
There's a wheelchair ramp for the step, but you need to get the staff to put it down for you.
Not an ideal situation to start with.
There is a sign outside saying ring bell for assistance. Unfortunately someone half inched the bell years ago and they've not bothered replacing it.
So I have to park the chair in front of the door, pull two doors open, and go down a step to ask them to lay the ramp down.
Today the receptionist, who I've not met before, misunderstood what I was saying and attempted to push the chair down the step. I clarified my request and she went to get the ramp. I'm in the airlock bit between the two doors attempting to return to my chair, cos I'm already a bit wobbly thanks to weather, when a little old lady appears trying to pass by the side of my chair. "Hold on" I said, let me get back in the chair first. "But I'm getting wet she says" and attempts to come past me. She brushes against me, I loose my balance and collapse to the floor of a space no bigger than a door square, blocking the door out from the surgery from opening.
Somehow, after a short wait, I managed to get back to my feet and back to the chair and down inside but by that stage the damage was done.
Not at all good now.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 1, 2024 18:18:06 GMT
Argh. Martin |
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 1, 2024 20:40:32 GMT
Bloody hell Phil. I hope she at least apologised.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 24, 2024 20:16:25 GMT
Guess who just broke the stairlift?
Moved about a foot, something in the mechanism audibly shattered and the alarm went off. Reached for the release cord to move it back and it snapped so it's now obstructing the entrance to the stairs from the hall. Managed to turn it off so we're spared the alarm.
This may not be cheap :-(
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 24, 2024 20:40:46 GMT
Have you...have you tried running a Level III Diagnostic?
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 24, 2024 20:54:15 GMT
The engineer will need to get inside it first. I've managed to turn it's power off - push in the release mechanism, which fortunately does not need the cord attached.
There looks like there's an amount of fine plastic shrapnel in the hall.....
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