stevo's Journal

Sunday I dumped mom out of the wheelchair and I can make a sketch of the circumstance. She is not suing the restaurant. But, I just hate looking stupid. First priority is her bicep muscle. Five years of pushing the wheelchair and I never ever had anything like this. I am posting a sketch of the front of the restaurant. The red cross is the contact point of the right front wheel of the wheelchair. I have to think about this and edit this later.

This happened sunday at 2:30 PM. Took mom to Riviera United Church where Lizzy was playing electric guitar in her church combo, 2 guitars, piano and bass. After church I took her to her buddy's place, Jeannie who is 92. Jeannie's daughters recommended Papa's Restaurant on US 1, south of Port Malabar Bl. 

Restaurant staff were slow but friendly. It's a really small place. It's not a bustling place like those franchises like Applebee's. We ordered strombolis and mom never had one before. I had a chicken one with broccoli (non-Bush-fare) and she had a Philly steak one with ricotta. The interior had a chair height partition in the middle and adjacent the entrance to the dining room there was a stack of wooden baby high chairs obstructing, so I wheeled mom all the way around to accommodate us at a table nearest the service bar. 

The sketch shows the entrance, with Cuban ceramic tile to the sidewalk. The curb configuration is weird kinda because it's wheelchair accessible ramps are to the left and right of this hump. Imagine, years earlier the curb was cast just straight, with the sidewalk and the top of curb being level. Then they removed sidewalk slabs 3 feet wide each, to the left and right leaving the 3 foot slab in the middle and reformed the curb like my drawing shows. So when you walk straight out the restaurant, you are at the hump directly. So when you push a wheelchair or back out a wheelchair you are at the hump directly in front. I backed her out then rotated it straight and the left front wheel was in the ramp section and the right wheel was on the hump section. So it tipped to the left downward and I spilled mom out to the left. She had her feet straight out. We removed those obstructive foot rests long ago, she always has her feet on the ground anyway it's her preference. She contacted her left knee on the asphalt then her right palm of her hand contacted the asphalt. Then she rolled on her right shoulder. 

The force transmitting up the right arm strained her biceps brachii origin at the shoulder. At 10:30 AM today we got a cortisone shot there.

Her left knee has a slight abrasion, like a little kid's knee.

She was in good humor and a restaurant waitress was there with me. She happened to be out in the parking lot heading to her car. She walked out a moment before us, and she turned back to help us. After waiting and checking mom for bones, I lifted red cross style and got her back in chair.