
Happy Mobility Monday folks!
I haven’t left the house since last week, primarily because I’ve been too exhausted and in pain from managing the mould and mould mites around the house. I am making it a goal to leave the house before Wednesday… watch this space!
In the meantime I thought I’d take a look back to this time last year.
My NHS wheelchair had been broken down for weeks and was on it’s way back from it’s second trip away to be ‘fixed’. I still remember the feelings of anger and utter despair so clearly (partly because I’m feeling similar again this year for completely different reasons). I remember the repairs company dropping it off, still broken, covered in mud and tracking it all through my rented flat’s beige carpet before I could stop them.

It was also around this time that I started to consider needing to buy a wheelchair myself.
I Googled and looked around, I watched a few videos on YouTube and spoke to other wheelchair users I knew to get an idea of what I needed, rather than looking straight to local mobility high street stores, as I hadn’t had very good service from those in the past. I discovered electric foldable wheelchairs on Amazon and fell in love but I just couldn’t find out enough information about them. The wheelchairs seemed to good to be true and the positive reviews were very encouraging, perhaps a little too encouraging. Digging deeper, I realised there were a lot of unsatisfied customers in the feedback comments. Problems with overseas communication, missing or broken parts, wheelchairs feeling shoddy or even unsafe. This was what kind of model I wanted… but I wanted it safely and legitimately.
Luckily, a fellow wheelchair user from a Facebook group I’m in recommended me Lith-Tech‘s website and showed me her own wheelchair folded up in her boot. The company seemed legal, trustworthy, honest and were UK-based, meaning communication and even trying out a wheelchair for size would be much easier that going through Amazon to an overseas company who’s ratings I couldn’t even trust.
The rest, as most of you know, is wonderful history. My amazing family, friends and even strangers pulled together to help me buy my dream wheelchair. Lith-Tech have been everything I’d hoped they were when I first saw their site and this… this is why I’ve been writing the Mobility Monday blogs for this past year. I hope if there is anyone out there desperately Googling for wheelchair solutions as they’ve been let down by NHS provisions may come across my posts. I hope my experiences, explanations and suggestions may be able to help someone in need.
Tune in next week to see if I actually leave the flat. How exciting!

Go girl nothing can stop you once again you have proved that no matter what is thrown at you you rise up and beat it all xxxx
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Wow! Time really does fly, so glad that your wheelchair is everything you needed it to be – now go out for a very necessary breath of fresh air!
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