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12 x 2 Offroad Wheelchair, just cool this vehicle, it is currently for sale, 6,5 HP, 4 km/h, with starter cable.
Of course without inspection of the technical control association.
With this vehicle up to the next street fair… 
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These technical aids are often developed by concerned people, produced in small batches and are in many cases not known by physicians and therapists.
We “Teddies“ (Quadri- or Tetraplegics) often have limited or not any finger function any more.
A companion had a great idea, worked it out until production readiness and distributes this individually adapted gripping aid under the name
You have a let’s call it gripper adapted to the hand.
This is opened and closed pneumatically by pushing a button with the other arm.
Depending on the handicap there are various different grippers, hand adaptions, etc. etc. etc…
You are able to grip again.
This gripping aid facilitates again independent eating, drinking, writing… ingenious!!
When I was asked I immediately volunteered as test person for new developments. Maybe I can help a little bit.
Look at the homepage and make it known.
Not to be able to walk any more is one thing, but not to be able to grip properly any more is not really great.
Take away the tools from a technician, and he will get them back!!!
The key chain is from the German technical relief organization
Let’s wait and see if I recognize myself in the mirror after the next test series 
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On Saturday I was on a “development training” on the rehabilitation fair in Karlsruhe.
I am especially interested to test technical aids.
This is even more fun with prototypes. This
is just stuck on the footrest of the wheelchair. A stud bolt is clamped to the footrest before, and off it “goes”. (Only suitable for wheelchairs with rigid-welded frame).
I didn’t reach maximum speed due to my survival instinct. Without anti-tipper on the wheelchair it’s a little tricky…
I don’t consider the name slave as suitable.
The thing is very handy, you can quasi tuck it under your arm, and it is quite light with its approx. 9 kg.
To quickly drive to the bakery without having to transfer to the electric wheelchair it can be rather useful. If you have other ideas for possible applications please write a comment.
You should better be careful that your nephew doesn’t mount the little tractive secretly to his child scooter.
I would have probably done it
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The most important safety equipment of a wheeler is his mobile phone.
You need it in the most paradox situations, maybe I will tell more about it later.
Yesterday I wanted to change my ancient mobile phone tariff and visited a store with the magenta coloured rectangles (translator’s note: German telecom), because online you can only upgrade and not downgrade your contracts.
A very kind competent service guy changed my tariff by means of a TAN code and a generated text message on my mobile phone immediately and without unnecessary sales talk.
Fascinating technology…
I interpreted the permanent clattering on the keyboard as work.
Then perceived 20 pages of paper with some standard templates were printed, filled, signed, and I was almost content.
Furthermore I wanted to terminate a partner SIM card, for which they already told me at the telephone hotline that this could only be done in writing, and I would best visit a shop.
I asked the service guy for the termination and he said that he would immediately set up a document.
The service counter was rather high for me so that I didn’t see exactly what he was writing.
Have a look yourself, you can close “digitally” the weirdest contracts with the company bling, bling, bling, bling.
SMS, WARP, GPS, UMTS… everything is possible, but for a simple termination letter the analogue pen has to come out!!!
Afterwards I was surprised that the service guy of this younger generation could actually handle such an ancient helping aid (pen).
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Yesterday it was raining cotton wool
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As wheelchair user I have neglected the subject of rollators or walkers a little bit until now. During my journeys through the depth of the internet I have discovered some especially beautiful types:
The parlour trolley is for sale under a different name.
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Everybody who knew me before my accident still remembers that I couldn’t sit quietly for 5 minutes. I am catching up this time now intensively.
The bad thing with a para-/quadriplegia is that often all muscles at the butt are lost.
If some day only the hip bones poke out of the bottom, the butt starts to “ouch” as if you were just driving with the car nonstop from Frankfurt to Rimini.
Cushions for wheelchairs are a science in itself. Starting with a simple piece of rubber foam for cheap 120 €, via shockingly expensive comb cushions which look like a beehive for 600 €, up to inflatable special cushions which looked upon from above remind of a box of chocolate marshmallows.
I am using a comb cushion myself which actually is rather good. I consider the price of 125 € for an adequate seat cover which in my case starts ripping at the corners after 6 months as such a cheek that I have my covers privately mended to avoid charging my health insurance with such exorbitant prices. Everything has its limit, currently my cover has leather on the corners!
As just explained there are endless types of wheelchair cushions…
Why shower commode chairs are only slightly cushioned if at all, is inexplicable for me. After long research I have found an approximately 1,5 cm thick
The investment of 143 € is worth each cent.
I am using it daily for meanwhile 6 months now and I am absolutely content.
This shower commode chair is a standard model: Apart from the fact that the brake springs were broken after 2 years and the rear tyres were seized up, the shower water accumulates on two slots on the front tyres. This can only be topped by the fact that water is accumulating in the inside of the frame and can’t drain off, because there is no exit for it.
They should have provided the information that the shower chair is not water resistant!
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Yesterday I had to fill the holes in my purse, I was in need for cash.
Because ATMs are extremely inconvenient for quadriplegics, I don’t get the bucks out of the machine with my fingers, my wife fortunately takes over.
In front of the bank, supermarket and bakery recently a spacious parking lot was built with additionally 4 disabled parking places.
I dared to park on one of those 4 parking places, although I remained sitting in the car and thus could have used a regular parking place.
On the disabled parking place next to mine there was this poser car with high-gloss polished alloy rims.
A bit unusual for us foot-lame people, but you never know…
Along came a girl in her early twenties with a shopping trolley and started to load her groceries in the trunk of that car – which didn’t match her at all.
I approached her in a friendly manner that I didn’t like “that” at all.
She replied that she would be paying for it…
I interpreted it in that way that she wouldn’t have difficulties to pay the parking tickets.
Should we introduce 35 € parkometers for extra large parking places???
I told her that this would not be the reason, and we wheelchair users would need the space for getting in and out of the car.
She replied:
My comment:
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So many rodents you would have to keep to replace a nuclear power plant. Each animal would have to get through a daily stint of 4 hours in the treadmill. We owe this finding to the British student Peter Ash as well as his
It is driving with its wheel a dynamo (see movie), to recharge Peter’s mobile phone. If this is not a marketing gag Elvis has trotted at least to the output power of 1,3 watt of a recharger.
We wheelchair users can do this as well:
We are spinning the wheel the whole day long.
Should we follow the example of the hamster, mount a generator to the wheelchair and feed the generolled power into the electricity grid?
If we wheelchair users are spinning the wheel together we would be doing something good for the environment day-to-day!
How about the slogan:
OK, the time has come now, you can institutionalize me!
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My daily consumption of various pills against all and everything which partially remind of suppositories in their form is altogether a complete meal.
I enjoy them in the meantime like gummi bears.
The colours are great, but the industry still needs to work a little on the taste.
Michelin-Stars for the most delicious dope, that would be something.
According to the motto: A problem shared is a problem halved, some pills might be halved and quartered.
Luckily my wife takes over the weekly pill destruction.
If I would try this by myself I would have probably gone into the light out of despair (suicidal tendencies).
I have found a
which is really working and has additional protection at the blade.
It is hardly believable but it has a price incl. shipment of less than 10 €!
Source of supply enquiries as usual under rollinator@eigude.de .
Click also on tag “pills”.
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I am attributing the development of this technical aid exclusively to the excessive consumption of the finest high quality medication.
Otherwise this special construction is hardly explicable retrospectively.
With this
which can be fixed around the wheelchair I might get a minijob as pizza boy.
In this box not only the pizza stays hot, but alternatively the beer stays cold as well.
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has crept into the shelf between the “Golden Easter Bunnies”.
Border crossers are everywhere, what this one is up to… and what will result from it???
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I am happy about every available disabled parking place, especially if it is rather wide and possibly not on a busy street.
Have a look at this commendable
in the courtyard of a motorcycle accessories store.
Somebody really gave thought about it.
It is probably paved on purpose with
for wheelers so that the wheelchair won’t roll away while getting out of the car.
The little catch in it is just that in the moment you sit in your wheelchair after getting out of the car the wheelchair is not rolling at all anymore because the wheelchair tyres “stand” perfectly in the joints between the composite stones.
I like such immobiliser systems!!!
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A very well-known wheelchair hotel is the
on Tenerife.
Everything accessible, 2 pools with lifters, a store for medical supply next door, etc.
Everything great, apart from one little thing:
Tenerife is a volcano island, and the hotel is on top of a hill, fantastic…!
A Paralympics participant might be able to conquer this mountain by himself, but not me, never ever.
Many hotel guests bring their own electric wheelchairs from Germany which often become victims of the airlines, or they rent a scooter during their stay.
I once got the tip when I am down at the beach and would like to go up to the hotel again, to wait for the next electric wheelchair driver and tow myself on to him.
Well, I didn’t rent a scooter, but already for the second time a wheelchair tractive.
I already reported in October 2010 about my positive experience with this tractive type:
By coincidence I got the offer in Tenerife to buy a Trac in black, even fitting my wheelchair colour.
I could not resist and acquired my approximately 10 year old, new toy.
The re-import of the once in Germany produced Minitrac from Spain was a little bit difficult.
At the check-in at Tenerife airport, a slightly panic flight passenger broke off the steering linkage. The thing was fairly crashed.
In Frankfurt my own wheelchair was damaged as well so that I could not ride it on my own because the wheel was rubbing at the brake.
With all the luggage and a little overstrained lady from the airport handicapped service it was a perfect mess.
Without the help of my wife I probably would still be standing in Terminal 1.
After a first repair of the steering linkage of the Minitrac and a set of new batteries the first rides in Frankfurt could be made.
This thing rides only with 6 km/h, therefore doesn’t need a license plate and doesn’t have any constraints from the technical control association.
Some ideas come to my mind immediately what could be changed .
Wait and see…
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If you are typing with only one finger like me some tips fall by the wayside for lack of typing. But therefore one talks to another!
If ideas are helping other handicapped, and they are publishing these in other medias, i.e. typing for me, then I take the freedom, do it like Guttenberg and copy it:
Many tips are received on Tenerife in the health resort Mar y Sol from other concerned people. Steffen (alias for Rollinator), wheelchair user as well, brought me to a great medical device:
Both my wheelchair and my stairlift have sharp edges on which I hurt my heels occasionally.
Additionally my legs angle spastically in the night and thus the foot is rubbing tightly across the bed sheet with the heel.
Result is a bedsore at the heel.
Although there are special cushions which are fixed with Velcro strips, they are not useful for me. Due to strong leg movement unfortunately the cushion is not where it should be any more the next morning. Steffen recommended a
(Nobafrott PZN 7094346), which usually doesn’t slip off and led to the healing of the bedsore.
I bought the bandage rather low priced at the HAD pharmacy (vitaware.de) for 85,09 Euro. The length of the bandage should be generously measured – can be cut from the 5 m.
Source: Olaf
When I sleep a night with the “socks” I don’t have swollen feet in the morning anymore.
The use of the tubular bandage has to be discussed with the physician for possible thrombosis risk or blood pressure problems!
We don’t want to harm anybody and assume no liability.
The photo with the crossed socks reminds a bit of a pirate flag, “Mouse Ahoy”!
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