Senior Citizens!, What was your most embarrassing moment ever, and how did you get out of it?...?

I certainly would not feel embarrassed. I can get about no problem at the moment, but I can see the day coming when I may not be able to. So with that in mind I have been looking at others who are less mobile than I am and how they deal with this.

There are those I know who flatly refuse to use a wheel chair, scooter, walker or anything to help them. They are not going to give into their mobility problems and be humiliated by going out using those things. They use either one or two walking sticks to get them painfully to their car to go visit family.

But that is the extent of their social life, they even need to rely on someone else to do their grocery shopping. In the winter months, they cannot get out at all. These are folks I have known for years and have seen them change from outgoing happy people to being bad tempered, depressed and almost reclusive.

On the other hand I also know some who use a walker in the house and have, a wheelchair or scooter for when they go out. Quite frankly you hardly ever get them in! They are always off somewhere.

One friend has recently had to make the choice of which she would prefer. She would love a scooter, but decided on a wheelchair as she likes to use her bus pass, and she knows that the local buses have wheelchair places on them. She stays in Aberdeen and was off last week to Inverness to her sister for a couple of days.

Next weekend she will be coming to Perth to visit her brother. She used to have to do that by car, but now she saves money and goes by bus. The sense of freedom and Independence gained and therefor quality of life, has me in do doubt that when it comes to that time for me I will be getting a scooter.

BTW Thomas I have a friend who has a scooter and has a rain canopy for it. It covers her and the scooter. Makes it look like a mini bubble car LOL.

Beulah.

Yes, I would .... but I say that as I am today, still able to get about unaided. Albeit with some discomfort. My present state of mind would see a mobility scooter as another sign of my loss of vigour and ability which, to be honest, I would have trouble accepting.

When I can no longer get about unaided, I suspect my perspective would change. Far from being a sign of my decrepitude, the mobility scooter would be a liberator, restoring my freedom to get about and live an independent, dignified life. We do not always get to choose where we find ourselves but I think it is sensible to make the most of whatever opportunities our circumstances allow.

If a mobility scooter makes a positive contribution to our quality of life, it gets the thumbs-up from me .... or it WILL do when I need one.

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