Every notice no matter how well you try to prepare for some things you never really are?

[Dragonkort]

Well I saw my dr on monday and they ( all my drs) want me to start getting out of the house more now that its starting to get nicer out.  Well I told them the main reason i havent been trying to do that is because i can no longer walk very far before i have to sit down and catch my breath, and most of the places we go dont have those little scotters for coustmers to use  Well they have an answer for that.... a wheelchair.  I know my brothers and sister will have a fit as my copd they say isnt that bad, but with the moderate copd i also have congested heart failer and i genaritive disk deseaze.  That the dr said is why i get so wore out and tired when i try to do to much.  I know there right  after we got home fridayon i was exhausted and slept for the rest of day after i got off my nebulizer.  Now this shouldnt be a shock for me I have known for quite some time that eventually i would need one but some how eventually always seemed sometime in the distance furture.  I dont need to use it when im home, just when we go out.  it will be a regular wheel chair at first because the motorized one is to big to fit in our little van. I have pushed pts in wheelchairs off and on all my life as a lot of my jobs were in hospitals and nursing home, but iv never sat in one and tried to move around in it. I dont know if trying to wheel myself around will be any better then walking as far as breathing  goes.  but spike wouldnt be pushing a shopping cart in most of those places so he could push me if i need him to.  The wheelchair will be given to us free....all we have to do is pick it up tomarrow or tuesday at the latest. We'll proubly just keep it in the garage or van after i finishe praticeing how to stear it. I wont tell my siblings or my kids that i have it, so i dont have to justify using it to my sibs and it wont worry my kids. none of them every really go anywhere with us any way so inless they go in the gragre or look in the van they wont see it.  You see im the oldest living kid in my family and having lived and worked with the migrines for over a decaide to them i am the strong one. Its the same with my kids, mom is stronger and indistructable, some day they will all have to come to the realazation that that isnt really true, but that time is not now.  on the up side i will always have a place to sit lol  no more looking for a chair or bench to rest on while im out and about. humm ill have to see what i can do to supe it up some..... I have all kinds of materals.....humm I could make a cover for the back and emborider a dragon on it. ......if the seats big enough i could maybe make some kind of padded sling or pillow for sheba to lie on.  not sure how im going to handle that...Her bag will be to bulky to hold in the chair espically if im tryingto move it myself....maybe i can get a service dog patch to sew onto her sling and put her in that.  Is cloth and gos over one of my sholders and then theres openings on either side and it makes like a little sling for her to line in so my handsare free.  and she has her banndana if she sits on my lap saying shes a service dog..... dont know guess i'll have to wait until i get it to see what if anything i can do to make it look nice and be compatable with sheba....and now i need to take a nap....this is not really a bad thing....just another step in learning a new way to live and like i said i dont have to use it here at  home at least not yet, but its a good thing we didnt sell the wheelchair ramp that came with the house..i'll proubly need it eventually......

[amazingkevin]

They allow a full sized horse in Publix here, of all things It's her companion! Try story!!! Your sheba is your companion, No need for service dog credentials!!!