Deadline

[cjsmith]

I may have to face the fact that I'll never get better. What would I do if I knew right this moment that I would never again walk without pain?

The Never Get Better To Do List
1. Apply for disabled parking placard.
2. Cut my hair. Ditch gym membership, get a Y membership. Begin swimming.
3. Quit square dancing.
4. Get an electric scooter, all-terrain if possible. Maybe buy a new car to accommodate it.

I'm holding off on doing those things because I cling to the hope that I'll get better. In some ways the worst part is not knowing either way for sure. My life is on hold until a miracle occurs.

Maybe I should set a deadline. How long am I willing to stay on hold, given that it's already been a year and a half and given that miracles aren't looking likely?

Comments

[wcg.livejournal.com]

About item 4. Since pagawne got her scooter, I've been thinking more and more of getting a minivan or *something* with a tailgate and a roof that will allow me to drive the scooter into it and out of it without disassembly. I can get the scooter into and out of the Saturn, but it is a PITA. For you, with sore feet, to be taking a scooter apart, hoisting the pieces into your car, and then having to reassemble it when you got where you were going, would get very tired very quick.

One of the vehicles I've looked at (though I'll need to look more carefully) is the Scion XB (aka The Box). I think with the back seats removed it'd be perfect for two and a scooter, and still get something like decent fuel mileage.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I need something the size of my little Corolla (smaller than today's Corollas) if I'm to fit it in the garage or the driveway and still allow rfrench in there too. Without the scooter, it's a toughish but solvable problem. With, it might be overconstrained.

Still thinking.

[ambar.livejournal.com]

I have seen more than one scooter riding behind a car, sitting on a little rack-like widget that plugs into the hitch receiver. That way you don't have to buy enough car to put the scooter inside it.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think I've seen that too. That might be the way I want to go.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

(PS: But yeah, already hauling the wheelchair in and out of the back seat is annoying. And that thing only weighs something like thirty-forty pounds.)