Third Wheel

Courtesy of FB reminders, it appears today's my third anniversary of becoming a wheelie.

Phone call: "Hi, this is the wheelchair department, can we deliver a wheelchair tomorrow?'
Me:'Um. er - just hang on a minute while I get up to speed, I haven't heard anything back from Wheelchair Services since requesting an assessment."
Them: 'Oh, they've just decided to do their own thing again, have they?'

I guess it's better than the outright refusal to see me at the first attempt, but I was sort of hoping for something that would look at my actual needs (and size and shape!)

And amazingly also the second anniversary of the great eBay Quickie GPV fiasco.

So I was poking at several different auctions over the weekend [snip]and found two new GPVs had gone up last night, both with Buy Now prices (and blue frames, not purple, definite plus - c.f. my accidentally purple laptop). I checked a couple of details with the vendor, the front castor set-up is a little weird in the pictures, but that's reconfigurable, and the tyres were caked with mud, making it impossible to tell the state of the tread, but the answers were positive (nearly new tyres*), and so I'm now the owner of a GPV.

The moral of that story was make sure your vendor knows how to use a ruler. I broke the pattern with the XLT, which turned up in August, not February, but my plan for the day is to make it through to Saturday without buying a new wheelchair (or an old one).

* That turned out to be an outright lie, at least WRT the castor tyres, which were worn to the point of non-existence..