I started thinking about how I would best be able to get around back at TFL. The head of the PT department was in charge of perscribing wheels for me. The skinny wheels of a standard wheelchair are fine in a perfect world of hard/smooth floors but I felt I could use a little more tread out in my real world. When I mentioned I would be needing all terrain tires, all I got was a blank stare.
Rather than just live with their only choice - I found a reasonable option online that I am ordering Monday. Just the wheels I need that will fit the chair I got...a nice fat flat free alternative. I'm also wondering what my insurance company is paying monthly for what I am riding around on. I can buy the same model of the rental for $175 on Amazon. 33,35,29, .4",W
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Yes, looks like a better wheel. Buying could be an option too. How smart you are to know all this.
Yes, I have seen people using wheels like that out at public places.
Next to the insurance companies and the pharma companies, the medical supply companies represent a tremendous and unnecessarily inflated drain on the healthcare system. Not much different than the now infamous $600 toilet seat that our "honest" and "deeply concerned" congressmen prefer.
#singlepayer
"all I got was a blank stare."
Wheelchair salesmen aren't known for their sense of humor.
After watching you these past few years ,I am interested in how you are going to adept to your present dilemma.You will prevail I'm sure of that
You need to install a wood path to those areas that you must get to. Much easier to roll around on. When my brother-in-law became wheelchair bound, we bought those plastic sheetings that go under your computer chair on carpet and placed them end to end to all the places he needed to go on the carpet. Worked so much easier for him. Some kind of planking that would reach your destinations would make your travels much easier.
well - heckfire - why screw around with a whimpy wheel-chair how about one of these:
http://www.terrainhopper.com/
when you're done - I bet you could get a lot of your money back selling it used!
I saw a wheelchair recently with mountain bike tires on it. Pretty cool idea I thought!
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