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Archive for November, 2010
(Deutsch) Werbung Part I
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010Fax to my general practitioner!
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
Quadriplegic Tips XVII
Monday, November 22nd, 2010
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I am totally convinced that I own the coolest
Floss dispenser
of all times.
Manfred the fisherman motivates me every morning anew to do something meaningful with the day, provided that you define the “nonsense” that I permanently produce as meaningful.
Everything is to my opinion more meaningful than to sit on the couch and wait with the PS2 plastic fishing rod that the fish virtually bites the bait on TV. (No joke, see older blogpost).
Well, if the fish is delicious!
Back to the floss. The usage of floss in traditional technique leads with my light-fingeredness, with the emphasis on “light”, inevitably to undesired self-bondages and strangulations.
There are these little flossers with which you have to watch out that you don’t swallow them. According to latest rumours the new floss holder with integrated span mechanism and rubberized grip handle of the brand GUM:
Floss holder type Flosbrush
looks exactly like the strange thing which is lying on my table since the last midsummer. The engineer was probably quadriplegic. This great part is not available at German retailers.
But ask your dentist or druid on the corner (pharmacy) if they can order such a thing. The old model doesn’t have a span mechanism yet, but is also good to handle. The new one will be launched in the next weeks.
I don’t know yet how much it will cost.
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Technical Aids Tips and Tricks XXII
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010Frontpage
When I was still “footer” I got up depending on my shift at 04:30 h. It is clear that it is quite dark at this time if you are going around the bed and the bedside lamp has been switched off before. My shinbone every now and then bumped into the edge of the bed frame and lost.
For this reason I acquired at that time a battery-operated
LED night light with motion detector
which I used quasi as under-bed illumination. These things are meanwhile quite low-priced purchasable in the do-it-yourself store or sometimes at the discounter for less than 10 €.
Now I have the LED light standing on my bedside table. So I just have to wave with my hand to turn on the light.
This is great because due to the paralysis of the legs/hips I am lying literally like a beetle on the back and can’t reach the switch of the normal bedside lamp without greater difficulties. The lamps also make sense on the floor of the flat, so you don’t have to switch on and off all lights when rolling from room to room.
Equipped with rechargeable batteries I see daylight at night for around 3 months.
LED = light-emitting diode
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Technical Aids for Quadriplegics
Thursday, November 11th, 2010Frontpage
With my buckled Tetra fingers I can’t open cans any more.
I think that I might succeed some day with this
plastic bow
.
The can is standing on a non-slip mat (see older blogpost).
The leverage is considerable.
The opener is distributed by the Company Brix Denmark.
The company produces other openers as well.
With this part it should be possible to open an
Eintracht- Frankfurt Adlerschoppe
.
It is incomprehensible to me why the plastic bow is called J-Popper.
Let’s think about it…
Translator BL
Wheelchair Tuning Part XIX Competitor
Monday, November 8th, 2010
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In the land of opportunity I have discovered it.
The chain-drive
Off-Road Wheelchair, Type: Renegade.
Whether on sand, snow, dirt road or creek bed, with this hell of a chair you get through almost every terrain.
Unbelievable, but true, watch the VIDEOS.
The wheelchair has a 7 gear hub in the driving wheels.
It has winter accessories, with
snow chains, blades
and a
snow shovel,
to clear the gateway from snow. The
fishing rod holder
is rather funny I think, but the
gun holder
beats almost everything I have seen so far.
The price is fair, the basic model is available as of 4500$.
One time with this thing through the city of Frankfurt!!!
If the gun has a medical device number?
Source: Renegade USA
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Simply great! Part III
Saturday, November 6th, 2010Frontpage
In an older blogpost I have bashed a little on this wheelchair, I would like to apologize for that.
The special wheelchair with cross tyres was standing in India.
It is one of worldwide
530.000 Low-Budget Wheelchairs
(April 2012 already 639.000)
in 77 countries which have been especially developed by the organization
and donated to people in need.
The target of the project is to provide 20 million wheelchairs worldwide for free.
Each wheelchair costs only 59,20 USD including delivery.
Have you ever considered the donation of a wheelchair?
Just “go“ to the website of FWM and have a look.
Link: Free Wheelchair Mission
Unbelievable but true, a tool kit is inside the footrest.
Source: Free Wheelchair Mission
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Wheelchair Tuning Part XVIII
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010Frontpage
I have got the impression that there is the general opinion that all wheelchair drivers are going to bed before dark.
Otherwise it is inexplicable for me that non of the wheelchairs I have seen has but one reflector on the front side.
This is a striking lack of safety!!!
Safety regulations of that kind are not known to me. One could almost think that we are allowed to be knocked over in traffic.
With luck one has at least a bicycle reflector put in the spokes.
The big discounters every now and then offer silver-coloured
spokes reflectors.
These were not allowed for bicycles for a long time, but are perfect for wheelchairs.
For bicycles it is: front white, side orange, rear red.
My tip:
Paste your wheelchair especially on the front with adhesive reflectors, buy orange bike reflectors, spokes reflectors, or even better reflective
tyres.
Reflectors for arms and legs
for cyclists can e.g. be sewed on the backpack.
With a head light you can see holes in the ground at night
Blinking rear light of a bike, figure something out, be creative, paste reflectors at the inside of the car door so that it is seen from far when it is open.
I don’t have the desire to be run over by a car because of serious safety lacks on a wheelchair which apparently nobody is interested in.
The “Stiftung Warentest” (German product test foundation) is not interested in testing wheelchairs either
(see older blogpost). (My latest status).
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Technical Aids Tips und Tricks XXI
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010Frontpage
Almost all wheelchair users are using bicycle gloves which they buy every now and then at the discounter.
My needs for these quality products were plentiful, the more expensive ones weren’t any better for wheelchair driving either.
I got the tip to switch to sailing gloves because they are more robust and additionally reinforced at the forefinger to let the ropes run through for sailing without burning the fingers.
Furthermore the glove fixes very well around the wrist which is very important for me as quadriplegic for braking to not loose the gloves. The velcro tapes are fixing well, and the leather is out of one piece. The gloves are available in Antara leather or Neoprene.
Sailing Gloves
The price starts at 10,00 €.
Source of supply can be enquired.
Contact: rollinator@eigude.de
Now I am just missing a sailing boat.
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Tenerife Part V
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
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I already mentioned the accessibility of Los Cristianos. They have equipped a special area for us wheelchair and scooter users on the beach over there.
You can drive in your wheelchair on wooden planks almost into the water.
If you really would like to go into the sea there are two wheelchair lifeguards who lift you with a hoist into a
Beach Wheelchair
and move you across the sand into the sea.
The guys have pushed me across the beach at a run. I was shocked that Spaniards can move that fast, respect.
Swimming in the sea for the first time after 3,5 years, what a feeling!
I was hardly in the water, and the big fish die-off began.
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