Prebble Family Tales

It probably didn’t take you long to figure out that the whole Sir Gareth blog has changed. For those who want the technical details, we’re transitioning from Nucleus to WordPress.

Some things still need shifted around (entries prior to a year ago have some problems with images), but this is what we’ll use going forward. With this change comes the return of comment functionality, though you’ll need to register an account to do it (click on Login on the bottom left, then click Register).

So why the shift? Well, that’s easy. With another addition on the way, it seemed silly to have the blog devoted to Gareth. And it also seemed silly to start up a second blog for Child 2. And while we’re at it, don’t you want to know about what happens to us, the wonderful parents? Of course you do! So now the blog is “Prebble Family Tales” instead of “Tales of Sir Gareth”.

Mind you, if you don’t care about the rest of us, you can still just click the Gareth category on the left to see only the items about him. If you want to be that way.

We had an opportunity to try Gareth in a power wheelchair yesterday. It was incredibly short notice, but we couldn’t pass it up.

It was a Quantum 1107 Dynamo chair in a green very similar to Gare’s bike. We got him strapped him, gave him the basic info on how the joystick works, and then watched him lose all control as he locked his arms in excitement. After a bit of work, he was wheeling around under his own direction, though we had to help hold his elbow still so he could keep his hand on the stick.

The specialist who brought the chair wants to set us up with two more test drives so that she can bring along some accessories that will help with Gare’s arm placement. We’re pretty optimistic that this will work for Gareth in the long term. Which means that we’ll have to garner a similar level of optimism for acquiring a wheelchair accessible van.

Power wheelchairs are heavy.