News & New Chairs....
Sep. 26th, 2010 11:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeshyrSo ... time for some news and stuff ...
My hernia operation was deemed a success, though of course I'm not all healed up yet. I came home a week ago and have been generally hiding and recouperating since then ... I'm still very sore which is concerning me a little, but I have a post-op checkup at the hospital on Tuesday so they can make sure all is well.
Also have to see the dentist on Thursday, which I would otherwise put off but he's very busy and I had to make the appointment a few months ago, so unless I'm completely unable to make it I'll call a cab and drag myself along there. Hopefully it won't be too bad - it's three fillings but none of them are about to make my jaw fall off, I just don't want to leave them until they do incapacitate me with pain because really I have better things to do!
In general, operation aside, my health's still going great with the Midodrine. I'm still on enforced no-exercising-after-operation rest
My garden is in full "riotous spring colour!" mode with freesias and geraniums and that-yellow-thing-I-can-never-identify all flowering and my deciduous trees bursting into leaf and everything growing like topsy. It looks utterly glorious and, as every other year, I'm enjoying having the shade from the leaves of the trees which means I can have the curtains open with much less eyestrain going on from the glare!
I also finally got my new wheelchair! Here is a photo:
It's all a very sexy matte black at the moment which is great but a bit too understated for my long-term liking, and I'm not too fond of the grey tyres and grey-brown pushrims with the black frame.
I got the frame in black because it's the only un-switchable bit and I'll be stuck with it for a decade. I was tempted to go with something light royal purple but then I realised that in 10 years I'll be 45 and ... eek, scary thought in general really! So I got the un-swappable bits done in matte black and planned to switch around the switchable bits.
I've seen some tyres which both come in a sort of Royal Blue that I really like:
1. http://www.sportaid.com/schwalbe-rightrun-wheelchair-tires-24-x-1-25-540-145psi_pr.html
2. http://www.sportaid.com/primo-v-trak-black-side-wheelchair-tires-24-x-1-25-540-4-colors.html
I also need to get some tape for the handrims anyway, to make it easier to grip. It's the type of tape people put on tennis rackets for grip so I imagine it comes in about a million different colours and I'll be able to match the blue without too much hassle. At least, I hope so!!
I'm also planning to switch the cargo net (droopy thing under the seat - you toss things in it to carry them) to a blue netting by grabbing a bunch of blue cord and digging up my long-lost macrame skills! I've had a look at the current netting and it's not finished off at all really (my craft teachers wouldn't have been too impressed!) so it'll need some sewing anyway and making netting is easy. I am not sure where to get the right cord, but I am fairly sure that Google will be able to help with that one.
I can't remember any other bits and pieces just now, so tell me what I forgot!
you're all wonderful:)
r
My hernia operation was deemed a success, though of course I'm not all healed up yet. I came home a week ago and have been generally hiding and recouperating since then ... I'm still very sore which is concerning me a little, but I have a post-op checkup at the hospital on Tuesday so they can make sure all is well.
Also have to see the dentist on Thursday, which I would otherwise put off but he's very busy and I had to make the appointment a few months ago, so unless I'm completely unable to make it I'll call a cab and drag myself along there. Hopefully it won't be too bad - it's three fillings but none of them are about to make my jaw fall off, I just don't want to leave them until they do incapacitate me with pain because really I have better things to do!
In general, operation aside, my health's still going great with the Midodrine. I'm still on enforced no-exercising-after-operation rest
My garden is in full "riotous spring colour!" mode with freesias and geraniums and that-yellow-thing-I-can-never-identify all flowering and my deciduous trees bursting into leaf and everything growing like topsy. It looks utterly glorious and, as every other year, I'm enjoying having the shade from the leaves of the trees which means I can have the curtains open with much less eyestrain going on from the glare!
I also finally got my new wheelchair! Here is a photo:
It's all a very sexy matte black at the moment which is great but a bit too understated for my long-term liking, and I'm not too fond of the grey tyres and grey-brown pushrims with the black frame.
I got the frame in black because it's the only un-switchable bit and I'll be stuck with it for a decade. I was tempted to go with something light royal purple but then I realised that in 10 years I'll be 45 and ... eek, scary thought in general really! So I got the un-swappable bits done in matte black and planned to switch around the switchable bits.
I've seen some tyres which both come in a sort of Royal Blue that I really like:
1. http://www.sportaid.com/schwalbe-rightrun-wheelchair-tires-24-x-1-25-540-145psi_pr.html
2. http://www.sportaid.com/primo-v-trak-black-side-wheelchair-tires-24-x-1-25-540-4-colors.html
I also need to get some tape for the handrims anyway, to make it easier to grip. It's the type of tape people put on tennis rackets for grip so I imagine it comes in about a million different colours and I'll be able to match the blue without too much hassle. At least, I hope so!!
I'm also planning to switch the cargo net (droopy thing under the seat - you toss things in it to carry them) to a blue netting by grabbing a bunch of blue cord and digging up my long-lost macrame skills! I've had a look at the current netting and it's not finished off at all really (my craft teachers wouldn't have been too impressed!) so it'll need some sewing anyway and making netting is easy. I am not sure where to get the right cord, but I am fairly sure that Google will be able to help with that one.
I can't remember any other bits and pieces just now, so tell me what I forgot!
you're all wonderful:)
r
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Date: 2010-09-26 09:00 am (UTC)i mostly know freesias as a florist item - they have a very strong but pleasant fragrance. they're in the yellow-through-purple range of colors. (flowers can be yellow-through-purple or yellow-through-red. irises and crocuses are outstanding examples of the first kind, while roses are the classic example of the second. for a very long time it was considered botanically impossible to create blue or purple roses, but now they have - i don't know how.)
what makes you think that in ten years you're going to have the color preferences of an old fuddy-duddy, and prefer matte black? i'm almost
21 for the third time63, and my overwhelming purpleness just seems to get stronger as i age! (although i did buy a pair of metallic silver leggings.) tennis grip tape is sold anywhere they sell tennis racquets (or golf clubs), and i'm sure you can find it in whatever color you want. the cord for the macrame is probably available in hobby/crafts shoppes, or maybe yarn shoppes. (and i'm boggled at the thought of making one's own cargo net!)you are wonderful too, dear penguin!
*hugs*
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Date: 2010-09-27 09:10 am (UTC)The black is more like a blank slate - I get to decorate it in whatever highlight colour I want to and changing my mind is only a $100 problem instead of a $2,500 problem!
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Date: 2010-09-27 09:47 am (UTC)and i suppose you could always paint the frame another color eventually ;-D
*hugs*