Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/01/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Thu, 07 Jan 2021 Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us>wrote: >You have my sympathy and understanding. Is she able to use a knee >scooter ("kneelchair")? Do you have a multi-story house? ================================================================================================ Thanks. We had bad luck with a knee scooter in 2016. That's when Kat broke these bones the first time. She was in rehab for six weeks, came home, tried the scooter, slipped off of it between the bed and the dresser, and fractured her tibia. Another six weeks at a rehab place! We rented one again this time, but she is doing well with a walker (and gait belt just in case). The wheelchair won't fit through our doorways when it's unfolded. Our house is a 1919 four-bedroom worker bungalow (all paid off) with two storys and a basement. Kat stays on the main level. My office/mancave is on the upper floor front, separated by the unfinished attic space from another finished room over the kitchen, where the cats spend most of their time. I go up the 14 steps more than 20 times a day; and down 12 steps to the basement at least that many times too. Our extra food supplies are down there, plus the washer and dryer, workbench, my remaining photo lights and darkroom gear (although there is no actual chamber to use it in). I put in extra railings a year ago, plus grab bars on the steps to the basement. I think of the stairs as my fitness gear. -- Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services (Retired) UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 amagayneroshak at gmail.com <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/> "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt