New wheelchair
Well, it's taken about 2 years of searching, disappointments and frustration (no support of any kind) and $3,550 but Thursday I picked up my new chair. Made in Canada and very well made. Took about 3 months from the time I ordered it until I picked it up.
Being over 65, I didn't qualify with the NDIS, if I was under that age I would have got a free chair..!
The aim was to get a lighter weight chair as Loraine has also developed some bad spine problems and the old one was just becoming to heavy to lift into the car. The new one is 5kg lighter which makes a big difference. I would have loved to buy a carbon framed chair, much lighter still but with no support it was just too expensive. Some are up to $10,000 - $14,000..!
I was wondering what to do with my old one so I posted it on Gumtree and sold it an hour later to a lady who's Mum had just had a stroke. Poor girl had to give up work to look after her. I let her have it for only $100 as I knew it would help her out immensely..
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