His New Wheelchair

My son received his new electric wheelchair. This thing is killer!!! He has had an electric wheelchair before but he was confined to basic kind of flat surfaces. He could take it pretty much on only sidewalks, hard dirt areas with no hills etc.

This new chair, he can almost go anywhere he wants. It is really neat. I have two levels in my back yard. The top level is where there is grass; the lower level is where there is just dirt. In the lower level, there is this small hill that he just loves. He constantly goes up and down this little hill.

He also controls it with his head. The control wraps around the top part of his head from behind. When he wants to go forward, he puts his head back. When he wants to turn, he simply looks in the direction he wants to go. He can also control the speeds and forward/reverse directions by pushing a button. It has a computer screen on it that tells him whet direction he is in, how fast he is going, and what speed he is on.

When we first got the wheelchair, we took a long walk around the neighborhood. It was super nice to be able to walk with him and not have to push him. The girls rode their bikes while he was in his chair and I was walking. It was a good feeling and I guarantee, we will be doing it more often.