I recently got a new wheelchair like one I saw that a young lady at the movies was using. She and her husband told us that it is called a Quickie and it is lightweight. They told us the brand name so we found it online. What is special about the chair it is one that I can steer myself.  The chair that I had before didn’t have large wheels and I couldn’t move it at all except with my feet.

This chair will allow me some independence when we go places now. Well, I am still getting used to using it. My sister and I went to the ladies room and I took myself to the stall and locked the door behind me. I started to get up from the chair using the handicapped bars in the stall. I realized I forgot to lock both sides of the wheels and when I got up and the chair rolled so I plopped on the floor! Yuck! The floors in pubic bathrooms are usually pretty dirty.

I told my sister what happened, but she couldn’t help me because of the locked door. I tried to get up but I couldn’t so I just sat there while my sister got help. Then she came back with a lady who had a little three or four year old girl who elegantly crawled under the stall and unlocked the door for me. This shook both my sister and I up pretty badly.   Then we went to dinner after I washed my hands (thoroughly of course). Afterwards, we thanked the little girl and her mother said she was bragging to her family that she saved a lady.

This is my life now and I will have to adjust better. I must practice with this new chair so that won’t happen in the future.