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• Do you sit in a (electric) wheelchair then you can get warm sitting bags. They are in different models and qualities and so also in different prices. If you live somewhere were it is cold and wet I would advice a sitting bag which is real warm, water tight and wind thight. They look a lot like a sleeping bag, but then of course not that long. PHOTO
• There are also raincovers if you don't want/need a sitting bag. These raincovers can also be used when using a scooter. I don't know iff they are exactly the same as for wheelchairers.
• There are pillows, also called body pillows. You can use these in many different ways like for back support and meantime as pillow between your knees and/or (depending on the size) to support your arms and shoulders etc. I use it to support my arms and shoulders, this way I lay more relaxed. They are with different fillings like sand, foam, hard or soft etc. My mom made mine herself with soft foam, because I hurt a lot. PHOTO
• Last year, 2001, our Swatch telephone (also a tip in this list) stopped working and so we had to buy a new one. We now have bought the Siemens Gigaset 4010. It is an expensive purchase but you then have a telephone with many functions, for example intercom on the handset, baby alarm, walkie-talkie, internal call transferring etc.
• I have a new computer system; I have a 19 inch TFT-monitor which is placed with an arm against the wall. The desktop is a few meters away in the tv cabinet. I use a trackball, you have them in different kinds and I have tried them all. The one I have now works best, the ball feels good and rolls real flexible and light. The keyboard I use is small and light, so light that even I can lift it! I turn on my pc by pushing the space-bar. With this system I am no longer dependent from Henk. I always had to ask Henk to take my laptop when I had to pee, because it was too heavy for me to lift. Now I only have to push the monitor away and grab my urifem to pee. I was sometimes working on my laptop while Henk was away... well I then had a problem when I had to pee, because I then had to wait till Henk arrived, this could sometimes take hours. PHOTO
• I always loved making jigsaws, but since I am fully bedridden in 1998 isn't that possible for me anymore. You must be able to sit at a table or sit/lay on the floor. But now I have found a site where you can make jigsaws on your pc (online, but also offline). They have over 800 jigsaws and you can make each jigsaw in 32 different ways, for example easy 6 pieces or pieces in the shape of stars or lizards and even hard 247 pieces. If you want to make them offline you have to do it as follow: download the jigsaws you want to make, click each jigsaw down to your taskbar, leave your pc on when you want to make the jigsaws the next day. If you become a member you will get every day an e-mail with the link to the jigsaw of that day. They have really nice jigsaws, take a look at www.jigzone.com.

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