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[wheeliebear75]

Well I'm reasonably sure I'm not the only one....and hopefully this will make for an interesting thread. Have accidentally put some pretty unmistakable dings & scrapes on the walls,doors, & thresholds of our house. Have you?

Now 1st of all let me say that my B/F isn't upset even in the slightest that I've made our home so "unique". And the fallowing should show the exact wear & tear I've done & what parts made what scratches. Also keep in mind our home is a MOBILE HOME which means that when viewing these pictures keep in mind when you see how much space I'm maneuvering in that space is not "HOUSE space" it's "TRAILER space". Oh & PS...excuse the mess we had to let the made go.



This is the hallway door/coat closet so the only "damage" is minor & it's a rubbing of white door pain & my black froglegs' paint making a gray streak across the bottom.


Here is the door to our office/computer room & as you can see my rims gouged out a chunk of the door & my froglegs made a scrape along the bottom of the door.

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Edited by wheeliebear75, 06 January 2012 - 10:28 AM.

[wheeliebear75]

3rd picture shows how I have to make an odd zig-zag kind of turn to get from computer room to the restroom.

4th pic shows a close up of the deep gouge I've put in the plaster of our hallway walls with my froglegs.

& pic #5 shows how my footplate & froglegs scrape along the wall.

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Edited by wheeliebear75, 06 January 2012 - 10:30 AM.

[wheeliebear75]

Our bathroom's "battle-scars"...2 main boo-boo's; along the bottom is of course the long scrape from my footplate & casters, then there is the deep gouge for where my rims scrape the door-jam.

Froglegs vs. wood door? Door lost.

Rims against door? YUP...door LOST.

I have yet to see any wood splinters in my rims, casters or footplate.

Going through the bathroom doorway you can see that I BARELY fit (my chair is size extra skinny it's only 16' seat).

And if you look at the paper thin space between my rims & the door itself...it's almost impossible to NOT do at least some scraping.

(Seriously...just ignore the mess...I can't have anyone running around in them little maid uniforms...he's MINE! )

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[wheeliebear75]

And then there is the poor bedroom door. If you can't tell by the pix....the bottom hinge has been broken so it only hangs by the top hinge. The bedroom door got hit real hard & WHAM! Bye-bye lower hinge.

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[greybeard]

Most of my doorways have scrapes like that. I suppose it goes with the territory, but being able to focus with only one eye, means I sometimes miss-judge my approach to doorways.

[goose]

I think you've been pretty gentle on the walls and doors considering how tight you have to navigate around.

I've got a couple of little scruff marks here and there too but nothing major. A little paint will cover and a good excuse to change the color. (sneaky way to redecorate a room)

It amazes me to go places and see people bang into walls in wide open spaces just from poor driving skills....


I have learned how to rearrange (on purpose) the furniture with my wheelchair. I get tired of having things in the same place and I'm always moving things around.

[Edinburgh Colin]

I've got some beauties that I'll get pictures of, my wife has been pretty good considering the whole house was redecorated while I was in hospital so I've managed to do this in just under two years (mostly in the first few months actually!).
EC

[D. Smith]

I live in a small house and most of white-trimmed floor boards have nice chunks of paint missing where in a hurry I clipped them. Corners too, really. The worst damage I've done isn't to my house though... My poor car, I think she's angry.

[Wicky]

basically all of my growing up was in a wheelchair, and we never had a house that was accessible, lets just say i got introuble alot because of scraps, dings, ect. it was not good but now i am finale in a place on my own that has 36 inche doors, lets just say if i hit the door frames or doors i punish myself because there is no reason for it anymore.

[jscott92064]

We've totally minimalized our house. Got rid of as much stuff as possible so we can have the most floor space.

[Kayak Girl]

We live in a small apartment. Our refrigrator, dishwasher and oven doors all bear an identical black dented stripe across their front. I wonder what they will say when we move out?? Ha ha We consider it normal wear and tear.

[JaneC]

Bathroom door is my worst one, trying to get to the loo when half-asleep...........need I say more !

I think we all leave our mark, I am just always in a hurry !

[rue2you]

I have made TONS of dings around my house - especially my kitchen cabinets! However, I have 6 kids so I blame it on them!

[wheeliebear75]

I thought this might get some interesting replies.


I can't see out of my left eye at all...it has "gross finger counting @ 12inches" & my "good eye" isn't all that GOOD. But most of the dings are just a matter of space....trailers/mobile homes aren't known for having a ton of it....& my big metal butt takes up a whole lot of it.

As to the people who haven't yet mastered the art of DRIVING...I guess I really REALLY have to give Children's Hospital some major credit. Children's wouldn't even let me leave til I showed them I could at least parallel park my chair & could do a few minor but important things like wheelie myself over a threshold or small lip, & I had to transfer myself without any help aside from using a transfer board (I don't have neurological issues but the dislocations DID do a rather through job of messing up the upper back & neck muscles...so I just needed it for a bit while those healed). And then during the 18mo that I did outpatient OT they worked at improving my chair skills AND of course on trying to get me walking again. But they (Children's) really makes a lot of other places seem like a "quack house" instead of an actual hospital.

I put these up with #1 of course I thought it might be "a kick" to see & compare wall tattoos, #2 of course being that I'm hoping for a few "newbies" to realize that sometimes we just can't help it so they hopefully won't feel bad #3 IF the AB's in anyone's life is thinking that somehow YOU caused it with poor driving/wheeling skills you can point out the pictures I took & hopefully others will share.

(Simon...I really hope this thread doesn't "blow up" your servers , & if it does... I'm SORRY BOSS! Forgive me? )

[A trophy guy]

Kayak Girl, on 06 January 2012 - 04:56 PM, said:

We live in a small apartment. Our refrigrator, dishwasher and oven doors all bear an identical black dented stripe across their front. I wonder what they will say when we move out?? Ha ha We consider it normal wear and tear.

You know, a lot of that black stuff will probably wash off with a little scrubbing. My house is dinged up everywhere with wheelchair marks, and that black scuff crap was especially noticeable on the white doors and cabinets in the bathroom and white washer and dryer. But most of it is paint scuffed off from your foot-plate, or at least it can be. When I started scrubbing it off (and it did get a little tiresome and time consuming) I was amazed at how much cleaner and newer everything looked.

Now of course in many ways this is a neverending chore, since a couple weeks after this mega-cleaning job it appeared as though I hadn't even done anything. But it does make for a nicer house.

[The Black Sheep]

The underside of my car! The doors, bathtub, toilet, carpet - I don't really care that much, but the CAR!

I have a 2-seater and I pop the wheels off, 2 dings, fold the chair down, another ding, the frog legs bump as I drag the rest over, 1 more ding, and then I plop the frame into the backseat... crushing my speaker. Ugh! I'm so mad at this damn chair. I can't own anything nice because of it!

[Edinburgh Colin]

My car is the same, scrapes and scratches all over the plastic door panel, paint chips off the rear door where the chair hits it when breaking it down, chipped and scratched paint on the sill where the chair hits it when transferring. My favourite though is the tyre marks on the inside trim of the car roof from the front casters when they are wet or dirty and I'm lifting the chair over to the passenger seat!
Every where we go we leave traces if you can "track" us!
EC

[Tetracyclone]

My car door entry and the panel on the outside drivers door looks like crows have pecked it to death. Bare aluminum showing everywhere, and of course, rust on the outsider.

[trynity7]

that is a pretty tight space. im always worried about my fingers