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maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 19 Dec 2016 13:50

That is awful! :-(
I wonder how many other walkers are basically unsafe?

Well done to you and M :-D :-D :-D

This could be a new job - travelling walker fixers :-D

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

Sharron

Sharron Report 19 Dec 2016 13:35

One of our old biddies has never been quite the ticket but she is one of ours so we look after her and since she also has had a stroke she walks with one of those three wheeled jobs with brakes. She has always been pretty timid and none of us thought much of the fact that she is terrified on her walker, we just wait for her.

When we took them out for their Christmas lunch we borrowed the wheelchair from the garden centre to wheel her into the cafe and I pushed her walker in in case she needed it.Well, I am not surprised she is terrified, I was as well, the bloody thing wobbles all over the place, no stability at all.

The woman who administers the mini-bus is a retired occupational therapist so I told her about it because I thought she would know what to do. She told the warden at the flats where the woman lives and she said that she would see if it was a NHS walker, in which case she would book them to service it and if it was private she would contact the woman's family.

On Thursday, the woman came to the village lunch with the old biddies club and M took a couple of spanners and screwdrivers with him. In a couple of minutes he had the walker over and tightened all the screws. When she comes to the club on Wednesday he is going to take it home and replace the two bolts that are missing.

I don't know how long she has been persevering on a useless walker or how much longer the red tape will take before they do what took five minutes to rectify. Pragmatism where art thou?