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From: Pandora.Nigh@f3.n157.z1.fidonet.org (Pandora Nigh)
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Subject: Re: super-wheelchair
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Date: 6 Nov 90 04:15:59 GMT
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     Hi Warren, it is an expensive chair but considering what it will do 
it still cost less than if you try and modifiy a domestic made chair to 
do the same things if they can be modified. I talked with a dealer in 
St. Louis who wanted to sell me their new power base system chair. They 
would have to get a modified seat for me and modified leg rests. I have 
arthritis and get dependent edema so I can not keep my legs in a bent 
down standard seated position, and I spend 16-18hours a day in my chair. 
I also now need better back support and a system that will change and 
allow me to take some pressure of the spine this means that the seat 
back must also be adjustable. He tried to set up some of this but all he 
could at the time do was manual adjustment of the legs and back. I could 
not work them, they require and attendant to do the changes. I am able 
to stay by myself most of the day if I have the right stuff and want to 
continue to do this. So I told them they had to change that type of 
change system. Well he came back to me and they could put extended 
levers on some of it. Again that did me no good, I don't have the 
strength to hadle that. The chair was also set to high above the ground. 
It would be great to work at a standard height kitchen cabinet, but to 
transfer from the toilet back up into it and down would kill me. He said 
they would check out adding a hydralic lift seat and I'm still waiting 
on a final cost. The cost that he has come up with for just the lever 
operated leg and back system modifications to the chair is $14000. And 
this doesn't even do a 1/4 of what the Permobile will do.
     Permobile also makes some less expensive chairs that are more like 
the standard E&J or others but they also will do a few nice things. I 
have to re pull the specs but they make a series called the XIORs. one 
of the chairs in this system will rotate the seat 360 around the base 
while it is stationary thus making it really easy to get into and work 
in small areas. So don't worry about how expensive the top of the line 
super chairs are, check out the great stuff they do with a standard 
power chair.
                                  Pandora

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