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I would like to thank
sincerely for yesterday’s birthday present in terms of the victory
and the associated German football league record for a promoted team of 12 points in the first 4 matches.
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One of the main issues for us wheelers is the question, where is the next disabled toilet.
As pedestrian it is hardly imaginable that trips into the wild have to be planned from loo to loo.
For many wheelers the question of the next toilet is rather the biggest handicap, and many don’t dare to leave home for this reason!!!
Ingenious…!!! Finally it is available, the
There you can display worldwide with Google the nearest disabled toilet on the street map.
I know my hometown Frankfurt very well, but I would never have thought that there are so many disabled toilets in the city center.
This is awesome… Post, post, post…
Because this app or website is interactive as well you can also comment on the disabled toilets, if e.g. there is a narrow door, or add not known disabled toilets.
The option to display disabled parking places exists, but there have to be added some 1000 existing parking places.
or my blogpost:
Thanks in advance!!
I have found a similar website from a manufacturer of Australian public designer toilets for Australia and New Zealand:
www.exeloo.com 
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In Palma Nova there is a very long promenade which is dragging on over three beaches.
Good floor plates, the wheelchair is rolling and rolling and rolling…
On two of these three beaches there is a special roofed
There is a
on each in which you get transferred from your own wheelchair by two nice helpers from the Spanish Red Cross and pulled across the beach into the water.
I knew these special wheelchairs already from Tenerife see older blogpost, but with a water temperature of 15°C I deferred a test series of these models for an indefinite time.
If you are only allowed to use this beach area as wheelchair user when you have got a baby with you???
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My car is of course flagged with the “mirror socks“(see older blogpost).
Go Germany…
Click on tag Football to read a lot of stories around the most wonderful pastime in the world.
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For the championship celebration 2013 I voluntarily put on the orthosis again.
I am still slightly in „repromotion-mania “!
If my neighbour wouldn’t have called and reminded me of an appointment my car still would have winter tyres… well then… never mind
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I am always happy when my blog is not only read, but if other tips are sent to me as well.
In my blog of 04.02.2012 I described (see older blogpost), how fast the disabled parking permit escapes in the car at forceful braking and vanishes into the ventilation slot of the windscreen.
A citizen from Potsdam involved in the problem has given some thought and developed a
.
This object is great and is awarded after a long-time test for several weeks by the unbribable (except for fresh nut slices), independent Rollinator test team, with the new founded
for technical aids. The parking permit holder is a holder made from Plexiglas in which the conventional disabled or resident parking permits can be inserted.
The holder has a dovetail on the lower part with which it can be put in the much dreaded ventilation slot. Thereby the construction turns upwards, so that the permit clamps in parallel to the windscreen.
The permit thus will be seen very well, but can be removed any time “tetra easily” from the holder.
It is a well-thought new technical aid which is not only functional, but has a reasonable price as well.
For more information see www.parkausweishalterung.de
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Whereas for a pedestrian the growing together of the bones after a leg fracture without surgery is assessed with roundabout 6 weeks, it is around 6 months for us para-/quadriplegics. This is related to paralysis, blood circulation etc.
After the fracture of shinbone and fibula in early September a plastic leg orthosis was my permanent companion.
I have reported extensively about the fracture, hospital stay,…(see older blogposts), then you know the complete story.
As self-confessed football fan of Eintracht Frankfurt I got of course the special edition Frankfurt.
In the complete time during which I was wearing the orthosis Eintracht didn’t lose a single match. I am closely connected to my club and sit out almost everything, but eventually I wanted to get rid of the orthosis.
Just in the moment when I slowly began to do without the orthosis – how nice… -, a match was lost. The re-promotion was at risk!
I wasn’t sure, was it my fault???
What next… should I have to wear the orthosis until the German championship title 2013???
Yesterday I didn’t put on the orthosis the whole day and was worried that Eintracht wouldn’t lose the match.
Of all things the opponent was Rostock. There was an occasion in the early 90s, I don’t want to remember this match… (translator’s note: 20 years ago Eintracht lost against Rostock on the last matchday of the season and thus didn’t win the German championship title.)
The spell was „broken“ and the fracture will heal soon!!!
The orthosis is standing well next to the closet and is only put on when needed.
For the championship celebration 2013 I voluntarily put on the orthosis again.
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That standard wheelchairs, snow and sand are not the best friends is not really the insight of the day.
The low budget mountainbike wheelchair tyres
(see older blog post),
constructed by myself are indeed a big relief for me on bad ground conditions, but the small front tyres are for sand and snow by far the worst solution.
Well, with some special skating wheels as front tyres you might be able to illuminate the snow, but you are not moving any faster anyhow.
Actually I don’t understand it, but the engineers at the wheelchair companies don’t seem to know neither snow nor sand. Even after longer consideration I couldn’t think of any country which would not have at least one of it. Probably they live on trees, otherwise there would be adequate summer and winter equipment for each wheelchair as a standard.
Some day I will build in old MacGyver manner out of an inflatable physiotherapy ball and a hand fan a mobile mounting set with which my rolling vehicle turns into a ground-independent hovercraft wheelchair
Until I get there I continue combing through the technical aids scene to see what the colleagues are developing.
I am living in the city, but last year even my hometown Frankfurt was full of snow.
As formerly alpine skiing obsessed who was skiing with 2 meter skis in the Alps still in 2007 (no carving ski in children’s length) I already thought several times to cut my 2 cellar decoration skis in homeopathic pieces and screw them to my wheelchair instead of the front tyres to be able to leave my flat in last year’s snow chaos.
A seating test in a monoski on a fair was quite nice, and I was extremely surprised how stable I was sitting in it, until I asked my friend behind me if he was standing on the ski?
He said yes, took off his foot, I fell over, and the project monoski was postponed for the time being…!!!
When I read the post of a wheelchair hotel in Oberstdorf known to me I was immediately impressed.
Patrick Mayer, what a coincidence, a wheeler himself from Switzerland, who certainly has much more test snow than me each year, developed the Wheel Blades.
The
are small blades which can be clamped with an iron clip anytime easily (even for quadriplegics) to the front tyres of the wheelchair.
The front tyres remain on the wheelchair!!! The binding is individually adjustable.
There was a real expert at work. Look at the Video,
he rolls down a flat ski-slope with these things on his wheelchair. The envy factor increases, ok I grant it to him.
He has even added slide rails to the blades so that they keep the track on the slope. Excellent, chapeau!!!
The Wheel Blades can be ordered in advance from October 2012, I will do it.
To anticipate anything, they might get paid by the employer’s accident insurance at best, or you have a good lawyer at the social court!!!
I haven’t heard anything yet about test rides in the snow board half pipe, and the snow and waterski suitability still has to be proved
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is extraordinary. I haven’t seen anything like this before. You are living there a bit like in the Frankfurtian Museum of Modern Art, I will write a particular blog about it some time.
It begins with the fact that the trails for wheelers are bare of potholes and painted in stylish swimming pool blue. The only ramp which is a bit steeper was lately defused to a
Additionally there are rest areas set up for „tired warriors“.
The classic mediterranian flair with down falling plaster, clamping doors, blank cables, wiggly door handles, busted sockets and washbasins you miss immediately (not really).
Also the 500 g of hair in the sink will hardly be found. Thus the holiday feeling slowly starts.
44 bungalows are set up wheelchair accessible, and it is to mention that the grab handles next to the toilet are better fixed than on some stands of a rehab fair. The type of the
is designed very individually and is even new to me, but it seems to be functional. Even a
was kept in mind, which is optimally suitable for a wheeler to shave himself. Curiously it is the same type I introduced in my blog on June, 10th 2010. Seems that somebody has read my article. (see older blog post).
In newer bungalows some floor cupboards in the kitchen were saved maybe because of a lack of money. This results in the negative effect, that you as wheelchair driving man can reach the stove and will therefore sometimes be compelled to kitchen duty during the holidays by your partner.
The approximately 32 inch flatscreen TV is secured by an alarm system and definitely too big for the hand luggage on the return flight.
In this complex anything time-tested is different. In front of every bungalow you will find two sunbeds on a little terrace, and you will find plenty of them around the pool. So you are cheated out of the sporting competition on holiday to place your black-red-gold coloured towel on a sunbed at 03:30 o’clock in the early morning before any English could do so, just to claim your territory.
For us four-wheelers there is a
available which firstly reminds of a bottling plant of a brewery, but with a little practice the usage is fine.
To be continued!
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is extraordinary. I haven’t seen anything like this before. You are living there a bit like in the Frankfurtian Museum of Modern Art, I will write a particular blog about it some time.
It begins with the fact that the trails for wheelers are bare of potholes and painted in stylish swimming pool blue. The only ramp which is a bit steeper was lately defused to a
Additionally there are rest areas set up for „tired warriors“.
The classic mediterranian flair with down falling plaster, clamping doors, blank cables, wiggly door handles, busted sockets and washbasins you miss immediately (not really).
Also the 500 g of hair in the sink will hardly be found. Thus the holiday feeling slowly starts.
44 bungalows are set up wheelchair accessible, and it is to mention that the grab handles next to the toilet are better fixed than on some stands of a rehab fair. The type of the
is designed very individually and is even new to me, but it seems to be functional. Even a
was kept in mind, which is optimally suitable for a wheeler to shave himself. Curiously it is the same type I introduced in my blog on June, 10th 2010. Seems that somebody has read my article. (see older blog post).
In newer bungalows some floor cupboards in the kitchen were saved maybe because of a lack of money. This results in the negative effect, that you as wheelchair driving man can reach the stove and will therefore sometimes be compelled to kitchen duty during the holidays by your partner.
The approximately 32 inch flatscreen TV is secured by an alarm system and definitely too big for the hand luggage on the return flight.
In this complex anything time-tested is different. In front of every bungalow you will find two sunbeds on a little terrace, and you will find plenty of them around the pool. So you are cheated out of the sporting competition on holiday to place your black-red-gold coloured towel on a sunbed at 03:30 o’clock in the early morning before any English could do so, just to claim your territory.
For us four-wheelers there is a
available which firstly reminds of a bottling plant of a brewery, but with a little practice the usage is fine.
To be continued!
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Lanzarote, like Tenerife, is very accessible for handicapped, including a top service at the airport. Professional wheelchair pusher inclusive who also helps with additional perceived 100 kg medical devices luggage to get to the wheelchair taxi.
The island is a mecca for triathletes, people are training for the Ironman Hawaii there.
The fact that there are 2 bicycle lanes on the promenade might be a bit unusual for a holiday island, but is quite favourable for us wheelers. You could ride with your handcycle on the island until your arms fall off. In Puerto del Carmen you can borrow a recumbent handcycle which a former triathlete has provided who also moves around on 4 wheels now since a couple of years. Unfortunately only suitable for paraplegics 
Lanzarote is mostly accessible. OK, the curbs are sometimes lowered quite creatively, and the ramps have “Spanish 6 degrees” gradient, but we don’t want to be too pedantic here!
With all the hard work in the manual mode of my wheelchair (as I had to leave my Minitrac at home) I also had to deal with sand drifts.
With all this you have deserved a “hop blossom ice tea” (= cold beer) in the evening
I have already seen a lot, but a
to the next beer due to the steep ramp (in the background) into the Pub is somthing new.
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(Biblis is an old nuclear plant in Germany)
The decision for nuclear phase out was taken, we all have to save energy.
Innovative ideas are wanted!!!
The Bavarian alp cows are setting a good example.
Ingeniously simple, a solar powered electric fence. Hopefully the originator has already patented it.
 Thanks to a big soft drink company for the generous donation of a special casing and semiautomatic transport cart.
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I have already often reported about my handicap parking safaris (see older blogpost).
The discounter with the big “L“ on whose parking lot the most beautiful stories have happened, has relocated the disabled parking place sign on my proposal.
Especially worth mentioning is the reanimation of the wheelchair symbol on the ground.
The labelling is top!!!
A little e-mail with pictures to the head office, a very kind callback on the phone, and it was taken care about the issue.
I know, penned by me it sounds a little paradox, but don’t just always complain, raise the issues at the appropriate positions, often it is quite simple to change something.
However I have to mention that I kindly announced to an approximately 30 year old driver of a car with a star that he would be standing on a disabled parking place when I came out of the supermarket. He apologized several times, he hadn’t seen it. This partial blindness seems to be wildly spread. I believe in the Easter bunny and Santa Claus, and now him as well…
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I have extensively described my enthusiasm about a cooling vest (see older blogpost).
Yesterday evening I have tested a
Actually unbelievable, but you are sitting with a black cap in the sun at 28°C in the shade with your head being cooled.
“Only” water is put on this cap, like on the vest, about 0,3 liter. The fleece on the inside of the cap absorbs the water, and the cap virtually sweats and cools.
Ingenious!!!
Unfortunately my match was cancelled, I forgot my tennis shoes.
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Apparently it has gotten around that I am not one of the tallest any more with my 1,38 m in the wheelchair.
This
of an outside company is a real hit…
So somebody actually thought ahead, or it was a hobbit
Please note as well the perceived 12 kg
With the whole weight in my neck I am always hoping that my titanium vertebra is not breaking…
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