[nagdu] motorized wheelchairs was re soul searching - question

[Lyn Gwizdak]

Some chairs move like a mack truck and don't maneover well.  the brand of 
chair called The Jazzy is excellent!  it actually has six wheels - a larger 
ones in the center and smaller ones on the front and rear of the chair.  You 
can turn on a dime with one of those.  they tend to be a nice compact chair 
and not like those mega sized scooters that you have to back onto the bus 
with because there's no turning around room in the bay.  And you really 
don't want your dog's foot to be run over by any of these power chairs - 
they're all heavy!

Lyn and Landon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry D. Keeler" <lkeeler at comcast.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] motorized wheelchairs was re soul searching - question


> Those chairs are fairly agile!  My wife can manuever wuite well as long as 
> there is a little room.
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> From: "Vanessa Lowery" <vlowery at dhr.state.md.us>
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> I'm not sure how "agile" the wheelchairs are, but in the dase of the one 
> lady at the convention, she just thought she coudl roll along at 
> probablywhat was one of the chair's higher speeds.  In crowds like that, 
> slowing down would really have been the order of the day.
>
>
>
> Vanessa Lowery, LGSW
> Adult and Community Services Division
> Adult Services Screening Unit
> 410-853-3550
> VLowery at dhr.state.md.us
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>>>> "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net> 7/11/2012 2:49 PM >>>
> I once had my foot run over by a person in a motorized wheelchair, but I
> had accidentally stepped into the way, and he couldn't stop or swerve in
> time.  Those things aren't all that agile, I think.
> There may be jerks out there in motorized wheelchairs, but I expect most
> people are doing the best they can with what they've got, same as we are.
> Tracy
>
>> I am amazed to hear some of these crazy cane stories especially when the
>> inconsiderateness happens repeatedly, but although a cane user (like the
>> one that almost crushed Bibi can be dangerous, a moving vehicle is
>> worse.  My sighted husband has almost been run over several times by a
>> person using a motorized wheelchair.  Once outside the Rehab Agency
>> where I was going for a meeting, a man sped by in his motorized
>> wheelchair and yelled excuse me as he sped away after I yelped.  Not
>> sure how close he was but I felt a breze as he went by.  I have
>> encountered far more inconsiderate motorized wheelchair users than cane
>> users, and the damage they can do to a dog or pedestrian is more severe.
>> Brenda
>> scissors - wheelchair runs over dog who
>> actually, at the last convention or two that I attended, while there
>> were issues
>> wiht stressed out dog and cane users, which could get irritating, the
>> issue I had
>> the msot was with the one gal in a motorized wheelchair.  that gal
>> thought she was
>> hell on wheels, and she jsut plowed through crowds.  My dog had to make
>> quick moves
>> around her which she took offense to, but geez, I did not want to be
>> road kill!!!
>> But she was probably as stressed as the vast majority of folks trying to
>> not only
>> learn new territory in a short period of time, but were trying to get
>> from point
>> A to point B so as to not be late for their intended destination.
>> Vanessa Lowery, LGSW
>> Adult and Community Services Division
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