Innovation

I'm still working on catching up from last month's festival of busy. In the midst of that I received an email and photos from one of the BML's favourite agility competitors who had a competition mishap. She wanted to share her husband's invention for her. Read on!

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My broken ankle was casted Tuesday and I just have to share these amazing pictures of my nifty knee scooter my wonderful husband built for me.  I am in a non weight bearing cast to just below my knee and handing a clumsy 66 year old woman  crutches and saying "Here you go" is sheer lunacy.

I started Googling orthopedic things for a non weight bearing foot and found lots of really expensive things that I needed YESTERDAY.  I shared my Google finds with Charlie and asked if perhaps he might be able to get a rolling mechanics seat and convert it into what I need.  He was a toolmaker on Mare Island so if he could help build SUBMARINES he could surely make something for his temporarily one legged wife.

Harbor Freight had exactly what we needed and it was even on sale! He then proceeded to modify it to fit my needs, bolting on a wooden box to raise it up to the proper height for my knee, and even carefully gluing and taping on a piece of foam to make it nice and comfortable.  I  told him I am really clumsy and would feel more secure if he could put some kind of tiller on the front and my golly, he re-purposed a croquet mallet that hadn't seen the light of day in probably 25 years.

I still can't wait to get this cast off, but my one of a kind orthopedic scooter sure makes life tolerable.

To make this dog related they all barked at it and Rollo even tried to bite it until I told them this was my helper and I needed it.  Now they are fine with it.

 

Here is a nice close up of my contraption, and another of my spiffy green cast with my poor purple toes peeking out.

The cast putt'er on 'er allowed me to select the color for my Fiberglas cast .  I chose green because as any performance dog competitor knows green is the color of your qualifying ribbon.