#wheelchair problems

I love winter but I wish it would only snow on weekends because I didnt see the forecast and didnt know to book paratransit. So now Im sitting at home missing class. Just staring out the window waiting for the sidewalks to be cleared enough to manage. 10 cm so far and it's still coming down hard :'(.

Finally got around to actually measuring the angle of my wheelchair footrest and it's 15° backward. For context, my front rigging is 85° which is a lot tighter than most so the footrest doesn't sit completely flat like I need it to with the standard tubing. I assumed I was just being picky because they said it would need to be customised at a cost of $400 (which wasn't even on the order form) but 15° is actually so extreme. That would be like standing facing upward on a ramp 3 times as steep as the maximum allowed steepness for a wheelchair ramp for 8 hours a day. That is going to cause injury in nearly anyone!!! I'm actually so mad

As ever, is it too much to ask for a drop down rail that I can drop down from a seated position?? I need it to transfer and this is ridiculous

With transfering currently being tricky, I am absolutely hating the awkward support rails in toilets that you have to lift to bring down. Fuck whoever decided to create those.

Dryer sheet season

I tried to just hop up onto the bus. It wasn't a big jump, but for some reason I didn't manage it. And so everyone saw me fail and it was a little embarrassing because I've done bigger jumps than that before 😭