I FELL ON THE FLOOR! How will I get back on my wheelchair??
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2016
- I fell into the floor transferring on my bed! Something I haven't done in years, I hadn't gotten off the floor into my chair in two years so this is how I tackled this interesting challenge.
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It was hard but you did it. Great motivation.
Wow that was totally inspirational! You rock!
haha thank you Deanna!
I have pretty similar mobility challenges. I keep several crutches with cuffs around. They can be used like a portable grab bar. Great for providing thrust from a counter position.
Hi Kristen, awesome video. you have a wonderful sense of humor
haha, thank you Adam! I always feel its best to deal with things in a humorous way than to let life beat you down!
It was an awesome video, Kristen! I've fallen out of bed once or twice in the last three years or so, but I was still living at home at the time, and my dad and brother helped me back in bed. My dad has passed away and I live on my own again. I tried stacking pillows up and trying to climb on top of them, but that didn't work! I don't think I'd be able to do it like you, so if it happens again, (which I pray it doesn't!) I guess I'll have to call 911...or my brother-in-law. He and my sister are only about 15 minutes away. Great job, Kristen!
Donna Burck Sorry to hear about your Dad. Glad to hear you are living on your own YAY! . I am in better shape than my family lol. One thing you might consider is getting something like an ottoman or two (at different heights) that you could makee into like big stairs....does that make sense? Like for me a small stool wont work b/c I need my whole body on the same surface or it pulls me down...but if I have an ottoman type thing a few inches off the ground...then something a few nches taller than that I can get my whole body on, after the two ottomans I might be high enough to get into my bed or on my chair. Pillows are more flimsy than ottomans (Can you tell I am thinking of altenative solutions since this happened to me? lol)
Oh Honey, I am so sorry you fell. Thank you for all your inspiration, love
lol it's okay it happens lol
Wow Kristen ! You have very strong and amazing courage !
Awesome video and very informative. Love the new intro too!
Thank you!
Well done, really ingenious!
haha thank you! I was a bit worried at first lol. I am thinking "Man I am too old for this, how am I going to get up?" lol
Love the channel btw!
I have fallen many times too, and the struggle. Just started seeing your videos, didn't know there's so many videos from people with disabilities just like me
Welcome Al! So glad to have you! There didn't seem to be a whole lot on UA-cam doing what I felt like the wheelchair community needs, so we created our own! We have been doing this almost 3 years and I am glad to say I see more people helping others in the last year or so. I love giving a platform for others to show off heir skills where they do not have to put all the effort into editing and all that hard work that comes with having a full channel. I hope you enjoy yourself here! Let us know if there is anything we can make cover for you!
I've always wondered why people gasp when I transfer and now I know why. My heart was in my mouth watching you do it. Very well done doing it your way, so happy you managed without having to call someone. Being covered up while transferring and managing boobs is a biggy for me too lol.
haha yeah. It was interesting to see it myself lol....and even more impressed I kept my clothes on lol. Glad to know someone else understands the struggle lol
Wow that was amazing.. What you said about going from the floor to chair,, that is how i can do it.. My Mattress lays directly on the floor..
you did a great job,, i was afraid
you were going to tip it sideways
haha glad you enjoyed. I guess if your mattress lays on the floor you don't have to worry about fallling from the bed atleast :) You were afraid I was going to tip what sideways?
well done and thanks for sharing it hard work on your own let alone in front of camera I am very lucky and have a hospital bed so when I fall I use my but to get to right space like you get my top half up but then I press control to raise up bed in to more comfortable position also I live in social housing and not able to do any moving of units ect in my kitchen I'm finding this very frustrating jay
Thanks for your comment. It meant a lot. What do you mean noy moving units in your kitchen? like are you saying you have a hard time in the kitchen?
i always keep a foldable step by my bed, it helps for whenever i fall out!
BRAVO! I have the same problem sometimes...
The struggle is real! :)
Amen ! good job .
Lol thank you!
Bless you!
Thanks.
Intense! You're strong!
Thanks
You're welcome! I'm a c3-4 quadriplegic since I was 1. How long have you been an L1?
Due to the aging process, I can no longer pull myself from the floor into the chair. I have to rely on cute paramedics, oh darn. In the past, I'd sit on my knees positioned between my chair and a dining room chair. With my hands on one wheel and the seat of the dining room chair, I'd do a pushup while twisting at the waist to get my bum partially onto my cushion. Then I'd sort of sit on the wheel until I could right myself. I hope that helps you.
Thank you for the comment! I know relying on those cute paramedics has to be sooooo tough lol. I know many will benefit from your comment.
Oh honey, you scared me when you started transferring from the bed frame to the chair; I know about bad brakes. Got em. Glad your ok. Falling sucks. It took me and my mom TOGETHER 45 minutes,3 couch cushions,a shower towel and my chair, to get my butt off the floor back in December.
haha yeah it's scared a lot of people. I guess I have gotten used to it since I transferred that way from the couch (when I had one) for years. Thanks for the comment! And glad you aren't messaging me from the floor hehe :D
I love this video
haha thanks!
I have been falling alot lately. last week i had to go to the emergency room to get my foot glued. ( apparently glue works better then stitches especially when you rip open near the toes). I was sitting on the couch watching tv and i had gotten up to get a drink and something for my headache , this was around 3 am and it was dark in my place as my son was a sleep in his room. Anyway on my way back to the livingroom when i went to get out of my chair and sit on the couch i fell and thought well the dog has the right idea sleeping on the floor is probably alot cooler then on the couch and so i turned to make myself comfortable on the floor instead of struggling to get onto the couch and suddenly saw a pool of blood under my foot so i shouted for my son to wake up and well spent about 3 hours in emergency. I usually fall when getting off the couch and in my bathroom. I may do a video on tricks i have learned to getting back into my wheelchair from floor! :-)
Oh wow! Glad you are okay. That video would be cool.
diet make last message very clear before in my kitchen could sit side ways on a stool .but as I need to work in the kitchen from my w/chair more now its impossible to work from the side I think I need to have space for my knees so I can use all of work surface and use both hands for safety oven ect
their s got to be a floor lift for you with support handles , so if you get in the floor you can just go to it set on the lift on the floor and lift your self up to any level you need
There are. Any hydraulic is thousands of dollars though.
God bless you💁🏻
Thank you so much! God bless you too!
I don't know where you got the strength to do that. I could never do that. I use a power chair and not even a manual chair and when I fall on the floor I usually have to call for help. I cannot get on my knees because they spasm. My hat's off to you!
I've had 37 years of building strength. My arms are like most people's legs. Thanks for the compliment.
Thanks. Beautiful.
ok
This was sooooo intense!! And it looked and sounded painful by your grunts and moans. Fabulous job on getting back into your chair!!!!! I was thinking the same thing....somehow get to that stable part of the bed. I noticed your chair was far from the bed and was thinking how in the world......after all that work...were you going to get that wheelchair. You did it!!!!!! Wow!!!!!
Living Able Yeah, I heard you saying that in the video. You poor thing. :(
You fell again today!!!!! Nooooo!!!!! How did you fall? And why did you get rid of your couch? Did you fall again in your bedroom?
Tamera Weeks Yes I fell doing the exact same thing as I did in this video lol. I got rid of my couch because I always stay in my chair and rarely have guest. Couch takes up too much room in my 500 sq ft apt
+Living Able That makes sense about the couch. If I ever come visit, I'll know to bring my own chair. lol
I will have to go back to the video to remember how you fell. I don't remember you even saying. I just remember seeing you looking helpless lying there on the floor. :)
Tamera Weeks haha yeah. I have other chairs here. Just not a couch no worries. I even have 2 extra wheelchairs if that makes u fit in!
Living Able hahaha Yeah, I might be a spectacle in a wheelchair, but I would "fit in". lol Driving a wheelchair takes some practice, so I might need some lessons. ha
Wow, you are very strong. At this point in life I would probably just have to call someone to help me get up. I need to try to get my upper body stronger, but I have a pressure sore and I don't want to make that worse. I notice you have a big hole in your Wc seat. I might like something like that, too. Is that to take pressure off of your rear end? It's funny, for a long while as a kid and teenager, I had taken my brakes off my chair for basketball purposes ( to avoid broken or jammed fingers), but now as a 40 year old one of my low key missions in life lol is to keep my brakes working and tight, otherwise I just fall all the time.
I have a Jay 3 cushion and ir's just how it's made. Unfortunately this one is continually busting. That never was an issue with my previous Jay 3 cushions so idk why this one's having so many issues. I definitely recommend doing what you can for your upper body strength. I am no where near as strong as I used to be before I hurt my shoulder a year ago and I have gained a lot of weight, but I am working on it. There's a playlist of wheelchair exercises on my page as well if you ever want to look at it. Good brakes are a very good thing. Unfortunately the angle I was at when I tried to transfer it didnt matter if they worked or not lol. i'll be praying the pressure sore heals quickly.
What put you in a wheelchair?
I slid off my bed a few weeks ago, I hurt .myself more trying to get up, than the fall itself. All I got was carpet burns😀
That definitely can happen. I'm pretty sure that's happened to me one of the first times I found the floor and so then I realized I had to figure out how to not get the carpet burns. And so I do what I do now here
I am able to pull myself over to my knees and then grab side of my chair to pull myself up
Thats cool. That pulks my chair over on top of me at this point.
Buy a small stool. One low enough you can sit on it, but high enough, you can get on the bed, Make sure you move the chair against the wall near where you can ether get to it or get in it or move it easy. buy tools to fix your brakes. metric allen wrenches etc, maintain the chair best you can..best investment i made was two sets of good allen wrenches
I have all those tools you've mentioned. The actual chair frame is bent so that's why the brakes aren't working. I've had them adjusted and replaced twice so they've said there's nothing they can do and the brakes are already as far toward the wheel as they will go. The stool thing won't work (for me but great idea for others that read the comments) b/c my weight of my lower body pulls on me too much to push myself up to the bed . Pulling works way better for me than pushing but this is a great idea for someone. I can't put my chair on the side with the wall because that is my weak side so I can't transfer that way at all (unless I have something to pull on like in my shower transfer videos). It's interesting how with every transfer I do except for shower transfer I use a "pushing" up motion instead of a pulling but with my shower chair and getting over the wheel and across the shower chair I have to use a pulling moment *shrugs* lol.
Living Able It's hard to give advice that works for everyone..Because everyone who is disabled is in a different way ..I have a Man bag that has a lot of what i MAY need for many probs, i know can come up. It is a Maxpedition Remora
naihanchin Kempo Oh absolutely. Impossible for any solution to work 100% of the time....but hat's what this channel is for with the comments :) Thousands can each give their "how-to" and really help people out. I always appreciate your comments! Keep them coming :)
I would've tried getting up off of the floor the same way. Only thing I would've done different is once I was on my knees, I would have rolled the chair right behind me, and then tried sitting back.
Great idea! I know someone will benefit from this comment. You mean going into the chair backwards instead of forward? I needed to get a better angle shot to show how far away the chair is because of the footrests. It' a good 8-12 inches away and up. My arms are so short compared to the length of my torso so I can't get myself up any higher and once all my weight isn't right over my hands I topple over lol.
Ahh... I see. I'm 6'2"+ so it'd be a lot easier for me.
Mason Ellis haha yeah it would I am 4'8 maybe lol
Good job thank you for letting me in on your life good job
One day you're as healthy as a horse when you get into a car accident
You'll need a video like this someday
APPLAUSE..........😂
great very informative as this happens to me often
haha poor #1 fan Josh! Glad you are still here to tell us about it!
What kind of cushion do you have in your wheelchair. I saw it had a whole in it. I have a reacher or a pick up stick as I call it. Yours is a lot longer than mine. Way to go getting back in your chair.
I am not sure the hole you are talking about in my cushion but I have a Jay 3 gel cushion I think it's called. I hated the cover it came with b/c I felt like I was sitting in a hole so I either go without or use my old cover for my old chair. Otherwise, I love it.
Hi, When you were getting into your chair it looked like there a hole in your cushion & then you put a grey Gel thing in your chair.
Anna9563 oh ok, no the chair came that way. The sticky things that keep the gel part from moving have just come off. I've been too lazy that last 5 years to replace those stickers hahaha
Ok.
sorry didt make last message for a while any work in my kitchen I could sit on a stool and work side ways as this is no longer suitable to be safe all my activities need to be done from my wheelchair but with no units suitable to get my knees under or the hight difference its very hard work I'm not the sort of person to give up and have made lots of progress as I've and to change to different sitting to do simply every day jobs around my flat but this work in the kitchen has got me stuck because I'm in social housing cant get cupboards changed its a case of working with what I've got any one got ideas that could help grateful for all suggestions jay
Jay thank you so much for your comment. That not giving up attitude will get you really far! I am not sure how many of my videos you have watched put here is a link to a playlist I have with a few of my videos of me working in the kitchen. Maybe they can give you some ideas. I am working on some more for kitchen organization so stay tuned! ua-cam.com/play/PLQUv5Jp9ClaJrX_y7JnEqQ4X04wVqR6Xl.html
I fell out of my chair a few months ago. I couldn't get back in without help. But I was able to control the fall to where my legs didn't get hurt.
Controlling the fall is certainly half the battle. Getting into my chair from the floor is harder but I am working on getting my strength back!
That's awesome! :) p.s. I love how you saw that situation as an opportunity to help others out. Seeing someone else brainstorm about what to do was really cool.
Girl, I had no idea what I was gonna do. I left the freak out part off cam lol. I really thought EMS was my only option. So glad I figured it out though. This has to happen to people all the time! We do need to stick together!
I don't have a wheelchair but if I were there I would help
I use a few pillows and climb up
would this work for someone with brittle leg bones?
Girl, I have no idea. I know I am on a prescription for my bones but it's really up to the person to try. There wasn't much I could do living alone. Thankfully I didn't have to be on my knees long. I'd imagine that was the part I put the most pressure on my bones.
yeah that's what I was thinking
beyoncefan2382 :)
dutchman983 You are probably right
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hahaha nice!
Better buy some small foot bench or poof because it's a bit lower to get on to en from that foot bench or poof you transfer to a chair and from the chair you transfer to your bed or wheelchair
I think that will be much faster and less painful.
Mark Van Oyen the way I transfer a bench would not work. I did get a different mattress that weighs less so I can do the whole process a lot quicker but I still prefer this method because I have a large solid surface to pull myself up onto instead of having to be on a small surface like a bench that I can't balance on
You are young & can use your arms. I must encourage you to learn carpentry so that you can put ropes in the ceiling so you can get up by using the strength of the strong arms God is loaning you.
Your home is neat.
I don't help my friend that is in a wheelchair because she doesn't want ropes hanging from her ceiling. She wants her home to be pretty instead of functional. She called me at night one time that she had fallen.
My wife also complains that I put my ladder and tools in "her" livingroom, but she doesn't understand that I work alone & I have a ton of things to do & my wife believes that children should not do any chores. I believe our children should help me put stuff away, but then the next morning nobody helps me gather the tools & equipment again.
I came home 2 hours early from work yesterday because I didn't have a screwdriver with me to put the chain back on the chainsaw. I cut trees for a living here in Deltona Florida. I must go buy more screwdrivers. I have some tools in one customer's garage & others here at my home.
In the future I will turn my home into a monkey gym. I have full abilities with my body; nothing is wrong with it. I do need to get stronger. One muscular dad doing pull ups at the park was telling kids that everyone should be able to lift their own body weight & I started thinking that I should be able to do more than 1 pull up so I'm getting in shape now.
I'm looking into Crossfit. I'll get there one of these Sundays. Please look into it, too.
God bless you and those that surround you.
P.S. I saw on youtube an electric 1/2 bicycle that attaches to a regular wheelchair & pulls it forward.
Thank you for your video.
Thanks for your comments. I am working on building my arm strength back up. I hurt my shoulder a year ago and was in physical theraphy over four 4 months. I am working on things at my pace. I definitely prefer functional over pretty and my place is functional I do believe. No need for ropes. This is a rare thing that can happen to anyone. Have a great day :)
Wow how creepy
your so pretty
Sei bella
Just a suggestion
Painful...?
I just call 911 mostly
Good forum if u actually cant get up from the floor. I feel if someone can but choose to call 911 that could be costing someone's life. So since I can this is what I do.....or used to do.
Stand up
come on! You've commented that on my videos before... Can't be more original?
I fall more than I care to admit and always freak out
I hear ya about falling. Why do you freak out?
+Living Able I just panic that I'm not gonna be able to get back in my chair but I always figure it out :)
Richard Jackson Practice makes perfect lol
Lol that's very true. I hate falling though. I mean who doesn't. It sucks
Richard Jackson Any idea why you fall so much? Is it mainly when transferring?
When your on your bed why don't you just go onto your chair backwards?
I explain I just cant do that. Guess my bjtt weighs too much to throw it backwards and not end in between them. Theres like a foot gap you have to get over because of the footrests. My arms also arent much longrr than my torso so going up higher is hard. This is just how I learned lol.
why you not loose some of your bed
I'm not sure I understand your comment/question?
so hard
It can be a challenge if you are not used to it for sure
Come promesso parlare con te
It's spelled you fell "on" the floor not in. Just a correction.
haha oops. I'll fix it now
I fixed it. Hopefully UA-cam will fix it quick. That's what I get for not looking while I type or proofreading lol. Thanks for letting me know!
+Living Able and you get back "on"your wheelchair not in lol just another correction.
I need you to write all my titles and descriptions for me LOL
+Living Able lol I'd gladly help 😉
Why dont you use your feet?
Because I can't.
Why not?
Håkan Forsell Watch more of my videos. You'll learn all about it :)
Mamia come vollese aiutare
Beatiful feet
Well we know who's a devotee in this room....
Sei voi il mio numero di telefono
YOu need to lose some weight and even though you havent done it you should practice on getting into your chair from the floor atleast once a month. Great video.
Um thanks I think....
Living Able No offense was meant. My apologies if i offended.
al zolez It's all good. Just don't know many people that would tell a woman to lose weight publicly where others can see it lol. And as far as the transfer goes, sometimes it just aint happening for someone.....
Living Able yeah im a bit crude sometimes and dont mean to be. Working on it lol!
al zolez uh huh...there is a way to privately message on youtube just so you know lol
Who cares
You obviously enough to comment :P
Fake
what is fake?