Look out! Male driver

Mr. Cranky got a Hoverround power chair. As he's learning to handle it, anything that lands on the floor is likely to be run over and all the doorways are getting chipped, dented, torn up (you get the idea.) Our doorways and openings between rooms where there is no actual door are only about 2 inches wider than the chair, which leaves very little room for error.
Our dogs are learning to move out of the way when they hear the chair coming, and Solomon, the parrot, is just starting to get used to riding on Mr. Cranky's shoulder with the chair in motion. He was jumping off with a LOUD squawk whenever the chair moved. Mr. Cranky has learned to turn off the power when he's parked at his desk and has had to put a brick under his computer tower. The off button for the computer was at the same level as his toes. When he hit the motion control by accident, the chair ran his toes into the off switch and he lost most of a Sunday School lesson he was working on. He also has a few bruised toes because his feet are longer than the footrest.
A friend from church built us a ramp so that the chair can be driven out of the house, and another friend gave us a wheelchair so that I can push Brian around when we shop a store that doesn't have power carts. We are praying for a vehicle that can be equipped with a lift to carry the chair so Brian can go places alone when he wants to. His little Civic is too light to handle a lift gate, and I put on too much mileage to be able to swap my 2002 pickup for his 1997 Civic. I'd wear out the Civic in no time; it has 175,000 miles on it now and my almost 5 year old pickup already has 123,000.

His breathing last tested as about 33% lung capacity, but he's losing weight (over 40 pounds so far with another 70 to go) and trying to stay active around the house. He works for 5 minutes, recovers for 10-15, and does it again; but he's gotten the fence repaired, his old workbench moved back into the garage from the shed and reassembled, and the gardenia bushes trimmed . . . .

More to come--if he doesn't knock the house down around me.