I have actually, I use Westerns, Westerns.com or westerns internet which is a, and I've actually gone on there to look for a specific thing and ended up buying other things that I didn't realise existed. You'll be amazed at the amount of, “Oh I didn't realise you could get a thing for that.” And “Oh look at that I didn't realise you could get that.” And I mean they, Westerns, the one I just mentioned have, seem to have a huge range of all kinds of not just aids but anything that might possibly be related to illness; creams, things for the body, exercise stuff, everything.
I don't know there are loads of, I've found loads and loads of web sites that sell aids and it, I mean it's a, it's a good place to look for things like that because you, you know, there aren't a lot of aids shops if you like, you know, if you can't or don't want to get them through the social services. And you haven't got to struggle out and whatever, you can just sit in the comfort of your home or the library if you don't have access in your own home. And see what's available. You know, there might be something that you had difficulty with and it wouldn't have occurred to you, you could find help with.
And the great thing I've found is not strictly speaking a disabled aid but with the warm weather and not just in the warm weather but in the, in the coolish weather I use my, my desktop fan. And obviously if I, if you're immobile it's difficult turning it on and off so I was looking around one day and found this thing where you can plug the fan into an adapter and use a remote control with it to switch it on and off which was only about £20 and was just worth every penny 'cos it, it's something so simple and incredibly boring as that can really, you know, make things a lot better for you, you know, especially in this kind of warm weather. Rather than having to, you know, either struggle, or if you can't do it at all you have to ask somebody else to keep running up and downstairs or in and out of rooms to, to help you all the time. As much you can do yourself the better I think. |
