Salee

Please note: this video is very graphic.

Not afraid

I had a little freak out about the iBOT
yesterday, but I'm back to normal today.
I didn't have a bad iBOT experience or
anything. I just started to worry about
things. Things like tipping over.

I have to say that I feel like the iBOT is
competely safe as long as I follow the
guidelines. Provided I don't do anything
stupid, I'm sure that the iBOT will never
tip over.

I enjoyed another wonderful stroll down
the beach today.

It's so wonderful to be able to do that.
Without the iBOT, there is no way I could
do it. It makes me and my dogs very happy.
: )

Some people had seen my tracks in the sand
last week and they were trying to figure out
what made the tracks. They decided it must
have been a Segway!

My Fears

Oops, nevermind. Deleting this entry so
that it doesn't come back and bite me in
the butt.

Introducing the Bot to the family

I moved out of my parent's house when I was 18.
Since that time, they have lived in a few
different houses. I've never been able to
just show up at their front door when I've gone
to visit. There have always been accessibility
issues, resulting in them needing to assist me.
No more of that baloney! Today I was able
to knock on their front door, completely
with no assistance from them, thanks to the
iBOT! It was great!

Before today they didn't know that I had the
Bot... so today was a surprise. Since I've
been talking about it for years, they figured
I'd eventually get one, but they didn't know
that I had one. My mom said, "When did you
get that?!". My dad said, "Holy cow, you got
one!" My sister said, "You're tall!"

They live in the country. I was looking
forward to exploring a bit on their property,
but the weather was too yucky to do anything
outside.

Making the Balance to Standard Transition (part 2)

In this video I'm leaving the bookstore. I have
to stop and transition back to Standard Function
because whenever I go through any sort of theft
detector, I have to be in Standard Function. If
I'm not, I might tip over. From what I hear,
one person was in her iBOT at the mall and she
was in Balance Function. She went through a
theft detector and the iBOT tipped over forward.
Luckily it dumped her out instead of the chair
falling on top of her. I tipped forward once
and the chair fell on top of me, but that was
only in my manual chair. I ended up with a fat
lip, a cracked tooth, and a trip to the ER to get
a 1 1/2 inch tear in my forehead stitched up.
I really hope IT can fix this problem because
spacing out and going through a theft detector
while in Balance Function sounds like something
I might do. :D


Here is the warning in the iBOT manual:

Standard Function vs Balance Function in a bookstore (Part 1)

I started out in Standard Function in this
video. I held the camera directly in front
of my face to show the view I get when I am
at regular wheelchair level. Notice all the
butts? I then transition to Balance Function.
Notice that I'm eye level with standing adults?

Bueller?

Ah come on people! No one wants to tell me
their opinion regarding the 3000 vs the 4000?
I know the 4000 is way uglier, but I'm curious
to know what other people think.

Although I cannot see who has visited my page,
I can see how many times it has been viewed.
It's been viewed over 200 times in the past 24
hours. Surely someone will give me their
opinion???

I did some video downtown today. I haven't
downloaded it yet though.

Tomorrow I'm going to get together with my
parents and sister and her husband. They
have no idea that I have an iBOT. They're
going to be surprised!

WTH?

Is it just me, or is the old 3000 iBOT
better looking than the newer 4000?
3000: (This is not me!)

4000:

The Honeymoon is Over : (

I'm depressed. Rainy season started today
and I'm really unhappy about it. My one
week honeymoon with the Bot was not long
enough.

7 day weather forecast ---> rain. Lots of
rain.

At least this winter I don't have to get
my sleeves soaking wet anymore from pushing
myself around in a manual chair. And, for
the first time since I was 8 years old, I
can make use of an umbrella!

Still, I think this is going to be the longest,
most depressing winter of my life. I never
even had the chance to go the the ocean
beaches with it. : (

More bottin' fun

Spent lots of time bottin' today. I guess the
rain is supposed to start tomorrow, so I best
enjoy it while I can.

I started the day with the usual dog park woods/
beach thing.

As per Stephanie's request, here are some pictures
from the woods. :)


I love making tracks in the sand!

Happy dog on the beach.


After the dog park, I took the dogs home and then
botted up to a friend's doggie day care place. There
were probably about 20 curb corners and about six of
them had no ramps. No problem with the Bot!

Here are some doggies from the doggie day care (posted
just because they're so cute).






Then I picked up the kid from school and we went to
a Wildlife Refuge.


'Twas a beautiful day!