it’s difficult to overstate how tough it’s been to deal with limited mobility. hiking and cycling used to be such a fundamental part of my life.

i can still walk. but barely. the break in my hip may heal but will come with some chronic pain and the nerve damage in the other hip is permanent.
i can still cycle but only on level ground for short distances. i still love it, but it’s not the same.

and so, here i am…
to be able to do more without assistance a chair might be more useful than a cane.

@isaiah I wish I had a rec for you, but all I can offer is solidarity. Last year I bought a mobility scooter and it was a huge mental shift for me. Unfortunately I chose the wrong company, it broke, and their previous behaviour made me not want to go to them to get it fixed at which point I discovered mobility companies refuse to work on each others' machines. I thought I was supporting a local business, but I was locking myself into a shitty company.

My only advice is that bigger companies>

@RubyJones thank you. there seem to be a lot of regrets after being railroaded into something type posts on various forums.
it seems like there are a lot of chair specialists that receive financial incentives to push people toward specific brands/models.
before i met with anyone i wanted to educate myself a bit.

thank you for the solidarity. i hope you find a good solution soon.

@isaiah Sounds like you're already ahead of me with looking at forums and stuff! I was a bit clueless, and nobody answered my requests for recs on Twitter.

Suspect it's the sort of high-cost, small-market business that leads to poor service and aggressive sales techniques, which is unfortunate when the customers are disabled and really don't need the extra hassle.