T minus 8 days

With my elbow acting up over the past few days, I'm glad we've been working on some less strenuous tasks. This morning I sat on a mat and took my wheelchair apart and put it back together; it went quite a bit better than the last time, and it's a bit easier from the mat than trying to lean out of the car and do it. For the rest of the wheelchair mobility hour I practiced wheelies, and the new chair has a pretty nice balance point - I managed more than five minutes in a wheelie, and I could have gone longer but I thought everyone was getting a bit bored. The chair has an adjustment for the center of gravity (by moving the wheels forward or backward) and I have to change that as it takes a good yank on the wheels to reach the balance point. Changing that makes it easier to lift the front wheels over a small obstacle in mid-roll, and having the wheels in the correct position is also easier on the shoulders and gives you the best leverage for straight rolling or going up a ramp.