MtPockets
Very helpful member
- Joined
- Jun 1, 2006
- Messages
- 1,544
- Reason
- PALS
- Diagnosis
- 05/2006
- Country
- US
- State
- Ms
- City
- Gulfport
For the benefit of those who have never had to use a wheelchair or have a friend or relative who now has a wheelchair.
I have a electric wheelchair, 3 months old, that I bent the foot rest because I did not know you were not suppose to put your weight on the thing. (Why don't wheelchair companies tell you these things?) I thought since my chair was rated for 400 lbs and I weight 250 lbs that it was meant to hold me. It didn't. The foot REST, I now know why they call it that, bent so far to the ground that it dragged on my front wheels to the point I had to remove it.
When I called my wheelchair company to ask for a repair under warranty, you can guess what they said, after laughing, that's a foot rest, not a step.
Well just in case someone else out there is mentally challenged like me, I thought I'd better mention this little piece of information.
God Bless
Capt. AL
I have a electric wheelchair, 3 months old, that I bent the foot rest because I did not know you were not suppose to put your weight on the thing. (Why don't wheelchair companies tell you these things?) I thought since my chair was rated for 400 lbs and I weight 250 lbs that it was meant to hold me. It didn't. The foot REST, I now know why they call it that, bent so far to the ground that it dragged on my front wheels to the point I had to remove it.
When I called my wheelchair company to ask for a repair under warranty, you can guess what they said, after laughing, that's a foot rest, not a step.
Well just in case someone else out there is mentally challenged like me, I thought I'd better mention this little piece of information.
God Bless
Capt. AL