#SmartDrive

[hazycola]

My Dr sent a referral to PT for a mobility assessment for a power assist add-on for my wheelchair- I just called and apparently the office she sent it to closed the referral instead of finding somewhere else to send it??? And they didn't even tell anyone until I called to make an appointment, as instructed. Once again so so frustrated- Why is the healthcare system like this?

[bugbyte]

I used my wheelchair for the first time in “real” snow today and it went well. When I got near the beginning of the year most of the hard snow was over and it was just wet out so I’ve been uncertain how it would handle when the weather turned snowy.

The biggest problem was honestly my hands. I use fingerless cycling gloves for grip and so I can check off grocery lists and stuff on my phone, but they were atrocious in this weather for obvious reasons. I also forgot that frostbite is a thing that happens and my push rims are aluminum so my hands were very very very cold and wet augh. I am looking into new ones for winter. These are things I never thought about when I picked a manual chair but I’m still happy with it.

I have a little motor called a Smartdrive that attaches to the back and is meant to take the strain off my shoulders, because they are terrible. It pushes me fully around on dry surfaces with no issue but this was new. I keep forgetting that it’s technically an assist motor so I can manually push and turn it on to, well, assist. It did so much better than I thought. With some difficulty I got through a pile of snow I shouldn’t have attempted (5 or 6 inches? Maybe?) and once I was on just thin snow it was great. It struggled on its own but pushing to speed it up was a breeze and basically no effort on my part.

I can’t find a gif of it but I am currently the “technology is incredible!” guy from Pokémon so just imagine that in this space.

Anyway, if you’re out there considering a Smartdrive and also live in a snowy climate, it’ll probably work ok as long as you’re on a reasonably well plowed or shoveled surface, and you can manually push a little when needed. The traction could be a little better but I can’t exactly complain because it worked better than I expected it to. It probably isn’t designed for this at all and in retrospect I hope it’s ok getting kinda wet, but I’ve been through rain and stuff and it seems ok. Time will tell I guess.

[meirmakesstuff]

Oh hey by the way if you have a SmartDrive I'm sure you also got the recall email but if you were thinking about ignoring it because you haven't had problems please let them send you the replacement speed control dial before it throws you off a curb without warning!

Seriously I've watched my wife get rammed into the side of their car, the dining room table, a wall...

[faggotisaacfloofs]

Furious about this whole smart drive thing

Mine broke before I had been using it 2 months from a bump in the sidewalk. Had to mail it to manufacturer even though a piece just needed to be glued back in to avoid voiding the warranty on this $7500 piece of equipment

It arrived at their facility on Nov 23rd and I have not heard a single thing since until today despite multiple inquiries. And today they told me they want $200 to re-secure the loose connection, and 0 timeline on how long that would take.

AND the dealer i bought it from (intermediary through all this) just offhand mentioned the recall in his email to me, ignoring the fact that HE WAS THE ONE WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO INFORM ME OF THIS RECALL A MONTH AGO.

They also don't even have replacement speed control dials, they just have some other button push thing that is much worse.

If you are considering Smart Drive, I have a better idea - simply don't!!!!!!!

Most expensive piece of plastic junk i have ever been in contact with.

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[wheelie-sick]

do I brave the hill to the bagel shop in my wheelchair or do I go with a rollator and suffer through walking? the horrible decisions I must make

[toomanyacronyms]

Im guessing I have a couple more years until I can get an ME/CFS diagnosis and help for it, plus no doctor wants to do anything more than Ivabradine for my IST (eg. IV infusions), so I am pretty sure a message to my doctor saying that I can no longer continue like this and need a wheelchair is in order.

[bugbyte]

Finally gave my Smartdrive a lil bath. The rock salt had finally built up and I couldn’t put it off anymore.

I put like an inch of water plus a splash of vinegar and dish soap in the bathtub and rolled it through a bunch like a big puddle (power off of course), then drained and refilled with clean water and repeated.

Looks pretty clean, hopefully it got into all the interior nooks, but quite a bit of junk came out so it was probably more past due than I wanna admit.

Anyway thanks to folks on here for telling me to do this a while ago, and if you also use a Smartdrive around rock salt and deicers in the winter, give that poor thing a wash. Here’s your reminder.

Yay for learning new things. Now I gotta go out and try it in the world. It was like summer nice out today so if that continues there may be adventure.

[chronically-chaotic-cryptid]

Wow I forgot how much I hate being in town

[itshomobirb]

woohoo! had the wheelchair eval today!! felt really good about it, they all seemed very knowledgeable!!

and then i get home and google the model they picked out for me. and uh. well. people online don't like it.

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