Transfers

It took me almost a month before mastering scoot transfers to my bed, etc. I learned how to do floor transfers and truck transfers on my own. (I was taught regular car transfers in the first month, but trucks are higher of course.) I mastered a scoot transfer into a lifted truck a couple days ago. Haven't quite figured out how I would load my chair into a lifted truck, but that's what friends are for!

When I go get X-rays or have to transfer onto an exam table, the nurses and techs are in absolute awe at my mobility. They don't expect me to be buff I guess lol.

Upper body and rotator cuff workouts are important if you wanna get crazy with your transfers. I still occasionally accidentally transfer onto my wheel, hence the gnarly bruise I have on my right hip

I started ( surreptitiously)teaching myself toilet transfers as soon as I was allowed into a wheelchair after weeks of immobility. Took a while to build strength up but I was sooooo sick of having digital bowel evacs, once they found out what I was up to, they relented and taught me to do it safely - a bit ahead of my programmed physio lessons . . .

When I was AB, I helped a friend who was SCI and living from chair 100% to make her apartment accessible. Watching her transfers and learning how she needed to do things prepared me for my current situation. So, in rehab they were amazed that I could transfer as soon as I had "function" to do so--spinal shock slowed me down for a while. My balance is exceptional from working off ladders when AB. Now that rheumatoid arthritis is weakening my joints more, I must be more conscious of how I am moving to avoid more loss of function or permanent injury.

A bit, but not as much as I thought it would. Grip is affected, and I must be careful lifting my chair in and out of car and house. Wheeling is so smooth and wonderful in this chair (TiLite ZRa) that I can still do it without increasing pain, even going fast.

Butiki, I am really blessed with this one! Was able to dial in my measurements pretty well, although foot rest was stuck and I would have liked to raise it a bit. I put something on it to accomplish the same purpose.