#dap asks

My hearing aids have made my tinnitus go completely away when I'm using them, and it's much quieter than it used to be even when I don't have them in. I think a lot of people don't know that hearing aids can do that! I didn't know, so I suffered from constant ringing in my ears for nearly 15 years. Don't be put off by thinking "My hearing is basically fine" or "I'm too young for hearing aids" — if you have tinnitus, get evaluated by an audiologist to see whether there are devices or other treatments that can help.

Thank you for sharing! So many people don't know about this!

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i genuinely used to go weeks without showering due to how exhausting and painful they were, but now that i have a shower chair im showering multiple times a week.

Yass! I can second this; shower chairs are amazing!

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https://modrinth.com/mod/wheelchairs/version/2.0

It adds wheelchairs, walkers, rollators, crutches, canes and more! They are all customisible and easy to acquire early game!

There is even a way to put a sword in your cane, and extra storage in your wheelchair! The latter reminds us of our backpack on our actual chair! And you can add a floating or diving upgrade to your chair, so exploration is easier! You can lock dismount too, so you can actually crouch while using the wheelchair!

And the models are so pretty! We got a wheelchair with copper wheels, a teal seat and a spruce frame, and a spruce cane with a copper handle!

We highly recommend it to any disabled Minecraft players!

it was pretty obvious when everything just felt Wrong when using a cane and it was simple to move up to a singular crutch. but what about to having two crutches? or a rollator/wheelchair? I dont have any diagnosis to go off of to help either since the doctors are still confused so I cant even just like, plan ahead or something.

Hi, I'm sorry this is something I don't have the experience or knowledge to answer myself but I'm sure somebody out there has answers...

Community do your thing!

Anon, keep an eye on the reblogs and comments. I hope your doctor(s) can give you answers soon ✌️

Yass! We love decorated mobility aids!

Stickers and vinyl wrap on the frame, or adding patches and pins to the back are probably the easiest, but there's definitely more options than that!

Check out the #mobility aid decorations tag for heaps of inspiration but here are a few of the more creative ideas this blog has seen...

Use hula hoop tape on the frame like this

Maybe you could wrap parts of the frame in fabric like this or this (both rollators but the posts might inspire you). Or maybe you could recover the seat back with fabric?

If you can knit or crochet or know someone who does, you could cover parts of the frame like this person did with their cane. Or like this.

Or make wheel covers like this wheelchair user!

Or take inspiration from this person's crocheted cane handle cover and make/get something made for your armrests or push handles?

You could add faux foliage like this person did on their rollator.

If you're into painting, take inspiration from this person's painted rollator seat; if you have side guards, maybe you could paint a design on those?

Maybe you have something you'd like to hang from the push handles or arm rest like kandi, beads, a plushie, or a keychain?

Also, I see a lot of people getting spoke covers for the wheel spokes. If you have the type of wheels that have thin metal spokes, you can do what I did and buy spoke covers that are sold for bike wheels. They come in a bunch of colours and if you search online, there should be a few places to buy them. I found it was a bit hard on my hands getting them on (fiddly and a tad painful) but I'm really happy to now have purple and yellow spokes!

hey, i'd like to share this pixel art piece i created to put on the currently popular pixel-drawing-on-the-world-map site! sadly the moderation there is terrible so it might not stay for long, so i'm hoping it could get preserved here, on the blog that inspired it? :")

(obligatory rambling, i kinda fumbled the wheelchair construction, but it's a low enough resolution you can't exactly tell what's going on there anyway i think..? and the disability pride colors aren't exactly right - gray instead of white - due to limitations of the medium)

This is fabulous! Thank you!

No more standing in line. No more awkwardly asking someone to give up their seat. No more casting about for a dry bench on a wet day - or a bench at all, in the Hell we live in. If I need to sit, I sit - and if there is a bench or I have a seat, it can double as a table instead of using my unstable lap; I can use it as a shower chair without taking an accessible hotel room bathroom from someone who needs it more, etc.

Literally life-changing.