broken glass

Rhodes, place of wonder, wonder why it was constructed.

two weeks in a row now, there has been broken glass on the streets where I wheel daily, we risk punturing my tires, which could cause a huge accident, there seems to be car accidents there every week.

Canadabay needs a round about or traffic lights there

Northcott

Tomorrow we (ME) will meet 2 O.T's from Northcott.

They will come to our place, to discuss what they think is what I am needing for my daily routine. Trouble is, I have another idea.

Last year we purchased a wheelchair from them (Northcott), Colours HAMMER court chair (As Northcott Classified it) trouble was, the chair was ex-demo (we where under the impression we would get one built for us), and then we payed them,but upon researching into the cost this year, it became apparent, that they actually overcharged.

Chair costs $3800 brand new (Spinlife website Dollars converted for US $), and as it was ex-demo it was already built, they charged us $5700. They also gave an additional wheelchair, for a sweetener I believe. (Top End Terminator)

I had requested Northcott, make repairs to the Invacare chair, new back rest, resit the seating, and replace the wheels with Invacare front forks and original wheels. Repair the brakes, all of which cost an additional $1200 on top of the $5700, plus a Roho Cushion, which for some reason I was not permitted to inflate it.

after the delivery, it became apparent that they never did any of the repairs, gave me a leakaged Roho Cushion.

I of course took it back, they only sewed the backrest, but never refunded the cost, replaced the $800 cushion with 2 $40 cushions, and gave me to front wheels from other chairs, without refund.

So I will be laying down the law tomorrow, they ripped us off, quite alot of money.

But one thing came out of it, this was when I first thought about my own wheelchair business. To imagine, I was actually as smart as those Guys over in the U.S making the sweetest rides I have ever seen.

the reason I chose Northcott, was so the money would go streight back to disability services, and not profit like when I thought about GTK rehab chairs. GTK are a rehab unit that sepcialises in O.T things like that, they also distribute other company wheelchairs, at an excreased price

Meriton

Well here we are again, almost three months since the leak in our apartment, we had previously contacted Meriton to repair it, with no response, amd still no response, now as we venture out into our Lift foyer, we notice that all the tiles have become apparently lifted from the floor.

I believe that Meriton, or better still Mr Harry Tricket, wont repair them,seems they sell off the remaining rental properties when to many repairs are needed.

so much has gone wrong with this Building in Rhodes, the incident where I sustained concussion, and now suffer from extreme headaches.

will they ever repair the faultss, or best still when will Meriton stoo cutting corners, and build apartments to Meet A.S,apartments that are built to last, not to just make quick cash

Meriton

Well lets begin.

June 2009, Meriton Apartments at the Rhodes complex, I ventured down stairs to the Basement Car Park, to place our recycling into the recyling bins, upon returning to the lift foyer to access the lift in order to return to our apartment located on the fifith floor.

I suffered a major accident,

As we all know Meriton and the owners cut corners when building, I guess that is why Harry Tricket is worth 4.2 billion dollars.

Ans in this case, the wheelchair access was a simple little line of floor tiles to make a make shift ramp, as I am a wheelchair user, the trouble I had to get through the door goes a little like this.

the make shift ramp was so steep at first point, second is a big heavy metal and glass door, one in which needed to opened manually by a key and then by hand.

Trouble was with one hand the height of the ramp made it extrtemely hard to push up with one hand. My chair fell backwards, smashing my head on the tiled surface of the lift foyer.

I was able to make it back to my chair, suffering huge amounts of back pain, and headaches, and dizziness, I quickly got back to my chair, went up stairs and check on our daughter , at that time she was almost one year old, I am a stay home father, so this situation worried me.

the effects of the fall became worse by end of the week, I had a series of cat scans, to clarify why I was suffering intense headaches. The result was Cerebral Atrophy, meaning the intense shock to my brain, had caused part of it to die off, I am only 36 -and the doctor said that should not happene until old age.

I am worried every day, and two weeks after the accident MEriton had rushed to repair all the pathways in the building (I believe accepting responsibility) I had contacted Department of planning aswell who showed dissapointment in the paths.

I suffered headaches daily since, Dr Corbett, (specialist from Concord Hospital) told me I will need strong pain killers on goinging, and that I suffered a head injury, and obtained delayed concussion.

Another noticable side affect, was weeks after the accident, I would be sitting still in my chair watching t.v and then I would fall from my chair, and black out, my wife was even more worried, what if that happened when our daughter was on my lap,

Now Meriton have denied liability, and as it is, our rent seems to be increasing above market value.

And talking of cost cutting in building construction, is evident in all meriton apartments, our bedroom roof is leaking badly, there has been broken toilets only partially fixed, broken lifts, access cut off by illegally parked cars.

Only good thing about our apartment complex is Lesley, the building manager, a lovely and very professional lady.