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Wheelchair Assessment
Mar. 30th, 2016 06:38 pmResult!
Within the first 10 minutes the Wheelchair Assessment OT was saying "I think I'm going to recommend we provide you a Quickie Argon". I thought I'd have to fight far harder to get a lower spec chair!
She initially said "as a medium priority", but when she saw how I was using the existing monster she changed that to "high priority"
Apparently that should be another two appointments to sort it - I'm assuming one trial with an Argon of roughly the right size to check precise measurements and then a final fitting with the actual chair. Not certain how long that will take, she implied it wasn't likely to be fast, but that was before she switched to high priority.
She's not recommending an aftermarket back at the minute, but I talked her into a higher back than she was initially proposing - above the bottom of the shoulder blades as opposed to below it. Nice attention to detail/local issues as well, when I said I'd be spending most of my time in Rochester she said "Ah, cobbles, need a wider front tyre on the castors to avoid getting bogged down".
*And she said Helium not Argon at one point (c£2.5k vs c£2k), but I think that was just a slip of the tongue.
It's been a long afternoon, though. I left for my Wheelchair Assessment at 12:10, I got back home at 5:45 (it's a 10 minute drive). I actually got into the appointment 10 minutes early (apparently there was confusion at their end as to whether the appontment was 11AM or 1PM, but my paperwork clearly said 1PM), but they used up pretty much the whole allocated timeslot as well.
The rest of the afternoon I spent in A&E, seeing as a) I was up at the hospital anyway, and b) my infected toe was a bloody mess this morning. I was actually triaged almost immediately, but then had to wait until almost 5 before being seen. They were excellent once they had their hands on me, but the problem seemed to be they only had one nurse practitioner running the minor injuries section and deciding on the treatment her minions needed to implement and she was run off her feet.
