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I am so happy to have found your video! Your sequence inspired me and gave me asana ideas as I worked with my yoga therapy client. Keep up the beautiful work!🕉
I tell ya once you have used a completely compatible handicapped bathroom while traveling makes you not want to travel at all if you can't find one where ever you're traveling to!!!!
Best bathrooms i have ever seen. I was in Dallas last year and my Ant rented a hotel room for me and my mother and to my shock and awwwwww lol that was the first bathroom i have ever been in that was wheelchair compatible i have ever used. And i loved it too. Its not as nice as the one you where in in this video but. It sure beat the heck out of staying at someones house and you can't get around in and use the bathroom on your own.
This is a really helpful video, thank you for sharing. As someone who has been paralysed since birth and has no feeling at all in my lower legs and feet I've always found it hard to look after my feet and know if they're needing treatment etc as I can't feel anything. Have you at least got some feeling in your feet that helps you to know if your feet have a sore on them that needs attention? Thank you so much for this really useful guide!
Saw your comment about beefing up some parts at the machine shop - do you mind sharing what you had done? I’ve got a mountain trike coming in a couple months and plan on abusing it 😉
❤😊 I have a para , he was in a car accident several years ago..He has aquired a job as a checker at Walgreens , isnt that fantastic ! Hes going to be 42 this wendsday, Aug.21... Im so very proud of you guys ..I turned him onto your show , I hope he tunes in and subscribes..Blessings..🙏
One of my relatives has MS and he needs a wheelchair for getting around inside his apartment. Where did you get that wheelchair? All the ones we've looked for so far don't have that kind of foot rest, and so the foot rests stick way out and run into walls in his apartment.
I'm disappointed to see how little torque you get with each push. And its heavy and the balance...you almost fell backwards there in the beginning.....I think they need to go back to the drawing board.
To those who thinks it’s okay to ask wheelchair users “what happened to you?”, this is why. Imagine going through this situation. Then imagine that every time you go to a grocery store, some random person will ask you to explain it. No they won’t get the full story, but the person in the chair will remember/relive it, when all they want to do is move forward from that awful situation.
Great video Tanelle, it's true the GFS building looks quite old, and the nurses filing system with hand written forms and binders feels like from caveman era. But it seems to function pretty well. Nothing is forgotten, nothing is lost. One time while at physio downstairs I mention that my right calf was bigger than the other. Not 30 minutes later after I was back upstairs resting in my room Dr. R. came to see me about that, proving great communication between the specialists there. I was soon trucked to UBC in a snowstorm for an ultrasound. Another time in passing I told my day nurse that I saw some shimmer in my right eye, again the doctor came right away and send me for a checkup at VGH eyecare centre, which is an incredibly efficient place. Being at GFS was an incredible adventure, I loved it there but I don't think I could have had much more of the hospital food, at the end I was skipping meals and loosing weight. Thankfully the mini mall across the street had the best Safeway in town with great ready to eat food options. Learning to wheelchair outside in snowy February, in slush, muck and broken sidewalk was interesting.
I was at GFS too, for six weeks in a wheelchair with GBS. At Vancouver General they told me I was lucky to have a spot there, they were right. On the 4th floor we where mostly organ transplant, MS and burns patients, didn't see any strokes patient up there during my stay but many come as outpatient for PT & OT. Sure the building is old but so well suited for its purpose, would cost a Billion or more to replace. The whole staff is so awesome, I miss them. I arrived on a Friday afternoon, my OT had just the time to fit me with a new wheelchair before leaving for the weekend. You're right, weekend are so quiet, almost spooky. I use to wheel really fast down the empty corridor playing ACDC in my headphones, blowing some steam. It's hard to keep secrets on the ward, everyone can hear everyone's conversation, everyone knows your deal. Recreation and music therapy provided me with a piano in my room and gave me lessons too, made the time pass more productively. I didn't know the story about Walt, he talked to me and encouraged me every time I ran into him there.
Love watching you make hotel review videos, very educational for those who need it 💜 keep on keeping on Tanelle much love and respect from Nova Scotia 😍✌️
Tanelle, it's always wonderful to see you. Please don't be a stranger...now your subscribers will worry....The motel code people don't know code stuff because the sink taps should be on the side and the pipes would be on the side and not an issue burning you and the piece of wood is silly.
LOVE it! The handles on the curtains/blinds are so nice. I love that this hotel had BOTH a tub and shower in it! Good call out on the places to hang your towels though. I'd make sure the hotel knows - that's such an easy fix!!
Just discovered this thing exists! I wish my mother were a little better, would have been great for her but she just broke her hip. She broker her neck 20 months ago.
