Wheelchair training

Did the obligatory back care and 'wheelchair skills' training at the hospital today. It was good. There's more to pushing someone satisfactorily in a wheelchair than you might imagine, and it's amazing how fast ordinary walking pace seems from the passenger point of view. Anyhow, now I'll be able to wheel patients around if required. West Suffolk Hospital has about 300 volunteers doing different stuff from gardening to hand holding to neck massage to taking the lunch orders. Co-trainees in the wheelchair class were mostly retired but included four Young People - three considering careers in the NHS and one deciding what to do next after graduation.