[Blind-rollers] Blind-rollers Digest, Vol 42, Issue 2, To Jevel S.

Thu Feb 3 22:09:54 UTC 2011

Looks like I'm outnumbered :)
I'm glad you are happy -- maybe down the line I will reconsider...
Roll on!
--le

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan" <keysjd at comcast.net>
To: "Blind wheelchair users list" <blind-rollers at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-rollers] Blind-rollers Digest, Vol 42, Issue 2,To Jevel 
S.

Hello,
I also use a power chair with a cane and I wouldn't go back to anything 
else. I use a collapsable cane with a revolving disc tip on the end and it 
works really well for me.

Sent from my iMac, using VoiceOver.

Dan
keysjd at comcast.net

On Feb 3, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Marcy Ryan wrote:

>
> To Jewel S.,
> I am a used of an electric wheelchair and blind, I have found that a 
> manual wheelchair is
> too difficult to use and get around safely. An electric can go slowly and 
> manipulate areas that a manual cannot due to its size and weight. I am in 
> a Permobile and I love it, I can go slowly and safely or faster if I have 
> a guide who walks quickly. If I am using a can I am able to manipulate the 
> environment more easily with one hand free.
>
> I recycle medical equipment and work with many of our peers with multiple 
> challenges, we all enter into the world of wheelchairs with a sense of 
> concern and fear. I have found one you get one you never go back to a 
> manual. The independence you get is so awesome and the ability to use the 
> clicking of the controls to listen to the sound bouncing off the walls for 
> a guide. I think people fear what they will look like to others in a chair 
> and try to avoid it, because our culture is so judgmental about 
> disability. And a wheelchair puts you disability right out there for the 
> world to see. I gave up subtle years ago, to get my and others needs met. 
> Its hard for others to understand our world, they do try, but until you 
> are here I think its something you can't really understand.
>
> If you need information of equipment and how to work things our to meet 
> your needs, please contact me at my email, its the same as my company one. 
> waywardwheelsinc at hotmail.com
> My company is all persons with disabilities, all the office's are run by 
> and for us, and the board of directors is also made up only of the 
> disabled persons. I have found over the years  we have been able to meet 
> the needs of many because we are so diverse.
>
> Hang in there, roll on,
> Marcy & Sadie (my work dog)
>
> Marcella Ryan, ED
> Wayward Wheels, Inc
> 181 Franklin St. #1
> Winooski, Vt. 05404
> waywardwheelsinc at hotmail.com
> 1-802-655-2936
>
>
>
>
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>> Subject: Blind-rollers Digest, Vol 42, Issue 2
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>> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 12:00:21 -0600
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>>   1. Re: hello (Jewel S.)
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>> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 08:38:19 -0500
>> From: "Jewel S." <herekittykat2 at gmail.com>
>> To: Blind wheelchair users list <blind-rollers at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Blind-rollers] hello
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>> Thank you much for the ideas! I used the messenger bag only because
>> that's all I have at the moment. I just made it a lighter load than
>> usual. I'll be trying a two-shoulder backpack next time, borrowing it
>> from a friend. I'm not supposed to have a lot of weight on my back,
>> though, so I'll still have to keep the load light. I'll definitely try
>> the dog leash idea@ That sounds interesting.
>>
>> On 2/1/11, Becky Frankeberger <b.butterfly at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> Making the bag sit evenly on both shoulders will help.  My husband has 
>>> neck
>>> and back problems from a severe car accident, so he is super fussy about
>>> what kind of backpack he uses.  He could never do a messenger bag as I 
>>> think
>>> it sits only on one shoulder.  Practice with perhaps tying the roling 
>>> bag on
>>> a belt.  You have to practice as you might have to change how you walk a
>>> bit.  Or perhaps a super long strap you can pull the bag where the strap
>>> goes across your body, thus I should think you are pulling it more with 
>>> your
>>> torso, not just your waste and not just with your shoulder. Around here 
>>> I
>>> would try with dog leashes, smile.  I would hook one end of the leash 
>>> clip
>>> to one end of the short handle metal thing, not the actual grip.  Then 
>>> the
>>> other clip end to the other side of the metal handle, thus the two sides 
>>> are
>>> like eight inches apart. This should add stability as you pull the bag, 
>>> thus
>>> reducing tipping, which trust me you do not want, grown. Been there done
>>> that, this works better.  For your pull bag you want the biggest wheels 
>>> you
>>> can find.  That might just  one of those old laby carts you buy at Wal 
>>> Mart,
>>> also called a luggage cart.  The wheels have rubber like little tires.
>>>
>>> Give it a think.  We are here to brainstorm with each other.
>>>
>>> Becky and guide dog Jake
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: blind-rollers-bounces at nfbnet.org
>>> [mailto:blind-rollers-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jewel S.
>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 6:10 AM
>>> To: Blind wheelchair users list
>>> Subject: Re: [Blind-rollers] hello
>>>
>>> I am doing all right. Really miffed because the bus took off without
>>> me again today, so I missed another class and another quiz. I'm so
>>> irritated. It was supposed to wait for me for the two extra minutes it
>>> would have taken me to get there, but it was gone by the time I
>>> arrived at the bus stop. So now I'm sitting out in the cold at the bus
>>> stop for another h alf an hour (been here half an hour already).
>>>
>>> I am still having trouble figuring out how to use both my support cane
>>> and my rolling backpack. Today I'm using a messenger bag which is
>>> already hurting my shoulder, but I have to in order to use my support
>>> cane and my white cane simultaneously. Any new suggestions on how to
>>> use two canes and carry stuff without having it on one's back?
>>>
>>> What do you all do when there is snow and ice ont he ground? Is there
>>> anything special to put on a wheelchair to help it keep traction?
>>>
>>> Oh, another question. I'll be using an electric wheelchair at
>>> Disneyworld this summer to get around. Anyone have suggestions or tips
>>> on this? I'm using an electric so I can use my white cane in my other
>>> hand. I've used a white cane with a manual (not easy!), but not with
>>> an electric and am wondernig if there are any tips on techniques?
>>>
>>> Later,
>>> Jewel
>>>
>>> On 2/1/11, Jackie <jpentland at hay.net> wrote:
>>>> Hi how is every one doing?  I am doing ok.  Here there is a lot of 
>>>> snow.
>>>> When there is a lot of snow it makes it hard to go out.  What does 
>>>> every
>>> one
>>>> do when there is a lot of snow out.
>>>> take care jackie
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>> -- 
>> ~Jewel
>> Check out my blog about accessibility for the blind!
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