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Door Saga - part 15
Monday-25-February-2008 Filed in: Independent
Living
Today JLC turned up to fit in a new controlled - you
will remember this as the one from Spain due weeks
ago. Well the new one didn't work, the whole day was
a fiasco and at one point the door developed a
seizure and opened and closed in short stutters for
some time! Alarms were sounding and the locking
mechanism didn't work. Eventually he said he got it
going - tried it many times and it did lock - but he
said he knew it didn't always and there was nothing
he could due as it was due to 'the door seal' and
that it wasn't meant to work on a PVC door. Why is
it, I asked, that this door was part of a 'door and
opening system' which was put in together? Of course
he had no answer for that.
Anyway, by the time Kevin got home it didn't lock - so when the door closes someone has to push it the last inch so the automatic locks bolt in. Also, the door has lost the ability to stay open e.g. when bringing shopping in, which he said was working - yet it isn't a function of the new system!!!
So, Kevin has told them once again that this is just not good enough and we await for them to return with the purchase of a 'new programmer' to make the door push with a greater force and close on its own like it is supposed to. So.... that would be the programmer they brought with them on an earlier visit which they now say they have to order as they have never had one....
to be continued...
Anyway, by the time Kevin got home it didn't lock - so when the door closes someone has to push it the last inch so the automatic locks bolt in. Also, the door has lost the ability to stay open e.g. when bringing shopping in, which he said was working - yet it isn't a function of the new system!!!
So, Kevin has told them once again that this is just not good enough and we await for them to return with the purchase of a 'new programmer' to make the door push with a greater force and close on its own like it is supposed to. So.... that would be the programmer they brought with them on an earlier visit which they now say they have to order as they have never had one....
to be continued...
Door Saga - part 14
Sunday-10-February-2008 Filed in: Independent
Living
Well, the part that should have taken 3 weeks to come hasn't arrived - several weeks later - still no date as to when our wonky door will be fixed... hmmmmm.
Dwindling Christmas Spirit - thank goodness.
Friday-25-January-2008 Filed in: Independent
Living |
Why is
it...
T'was the night before Christmas... well not really,
it was the Thursday before actually and the venue
wasn't a cosy family scene around a log fire - it was
me and my PA in Tesco!
Christmas brings out the best in people. It is a time of good will to all men and of extra special good will to disabled people.
The charity boxes are filling up nicely giving people a warm and cosy feeling inside...
Note from Editor: Little do they know they may have inadvertently helped another person spend further years in an institution - but never mind.
and people are falling over themselves trying to help.
Ahhhh. How lovely. Actually not. Not lovely at all when you are the recipient of such goodwill. Now I know people are just being nice, and God Bless them for that because it's better than being left to struggle.
However, take this example from that dreaded day.
My PA was selecting vegetables and you would have thought I personally was adding to the variety of vege in that area (Ed. crip joke), when out of the blue an elderly gentlemen beamed at me and proceeded to squeeze my cheeks like you might do to a cute baby in a pram.
For goodness sake, I'm a thirty something woman not 3 months old. He told me how pretty I was followed by a comment that I wasn't to think of him as weird old man - he just thought I had a pretty face and felt I shold know that.
I smiled and wished him a Happy Christmas... but he lingered on. He carried on chatting whilst his wife did the shopping. I was turning a shade of red and struggling on how to politely get away.
"Some people wear a silly hat or have to shave to look beautiful - but you don't".
"I should hope not", I laughed. "If I have to shave my face then I'm in trouble".
He laughed and off he went.
But it wasn't over yet, do gooders were all over the place asking could I reach things and if there was anything I wanted. My Yoghurt Lady (a member of staff who works in that isle and is very helpful every week) spotted me in another end of the store and shouted 'I'll go and get the cherry yoghurts ready for you, how many do your want"? Back she came with my goods and popped them into my trolly.
As my PA was packing things into the car, the guy in the next car offered to help put them in.... there was no end to this jolyness!
If you are on you own then all this help is probably just that - helpful. When you have a PA around and you have to keep declining help and explaining you have your own assistant - it becomes tiresome.
Thankfully, now, people are going back to their every day lives and Christmas goodwill is a thing of the past. No one will offer me help, probably, until next December. And that's the real point of this entry.
We are disabled for life (well a lot of us) not just for Christmas - so spare a thought throughout the year rather use up the annual dose of goodwill all in one go - thanks.
Christmas brings out the best in people. It is a time of good will to all men and of extra special good will to disabled people.
The charity boxes are filling up nicely giving people a warm and cosy feeling inside...
Note from Editor: Little do they know they may have inadvertently helped another person spend further years in an institution - but never mind.
and people are falling over themselves trying to help.
Ahhhh. How lovely. Actually not. Not lovely at all when you are the recipient of such goodwill. Now I know people are just being nice, and God Bless them for that because it's better than being left to struggle.
However, take this example from that dreaded day.
My PA was selecting vegetables and you would have thought I personally was adding to the variety of vege in that area (Ed. crip joke), when out of the blue an elderly gentlemen beamed at me and proceeded to squeeze my cheeks like you might do to a cute baby in a pram.
For goodness sake, I'm a thirty something woman not 3 months old. He told me how pretty I was followed by a comment that I wasn't to think of him as weird old man - he just thought I had a pretty face and felt I shold know that.
I smiled and wished him a Happy Christmas... but he lingered on. He carried on chatting whilst his wife did the shopping. I was turning a shade of red and struggling on how to politely get away.
"Some people wear a silly hat or have to shave to look beautiful - but you don't".
"I should hope not", I laughed. "If I have to shave my face then I'm in trouble".
He laughed and off he went.
But it wasn't over yet, do gooders were all over the place asking could I reach things and if there was anything I wanted. My Yoghurt Lady (a member of staff who works in that isle and is very helpful every week) spotted me in another end of the store and shouted 'I'll go and get the cherry yoghurts ready for you, how many do your want"? Back she came with my goods and popped them into my trolly.
As my PA was packing things into the car, the guy in the next car offered to help put them in.... there was no end to this jolyness!
If you are on you own then all this help is probably just that - helpful. When you have a PA around and you have to keep declining help and explaining you have your own assistant - it becomes tiresome.
Thankfully, now, people are going back to their every day lives and Christmas goodwill is a thing of the past. No one will offer me help, probably, until next December. And that's the real point of this entry.
We are disabled for life (well a lot of us) not just for Christmas - so spare a thought throughout the year rather use up the annual dose of goodwill all in one go - thanks.
Door Saga - part 11, 12 and 13.
Monday-14-January-2008 Filed in: Independent
Living
Well, since my last post, I think they have been here
at least 4 times to try and fix the door which is as
wonky as ever. It is driving my husband mad. First of
all someone came, had a look and said he would order
a new part. Came again, part didn't work. Said they
would change the whole unit - returned some weeks
later with only a replacement logic board. The
problem was even worse now.
One day they said they said they would arrive at 8.30 but didn't turn up until 4!
He said 'Oh dear, I don't know what's wrong it it ' and again said they would replace the unit. That was a few weeks ago. Then an e-mail to say the part had to come from Spain and could take another 3 weeks..... and so it continues.
JLC are useless - never get a door from them.
One day they said they said they would arrive at 8.30 but didn't turn up until 4!
He said 'Oh dear, I don't know what's wrong it it ' and again said they would replace the unit. That was a few weeks ago. Then an e-mail to say the part had to come from Spain and could take another 3 weeks..... and so it continues.
JLC are useless - never get a door from them.
