Advice please

[BlueBeachHut]

Hi, my husband has probable MSA and we'd like to know if anyone has found a solution for getting chairs under a table to eat. He can't move it forward himself so currently I'm pushing him forward but it is getting quite tricky to do and I'm damaging the floor. Plus it's very challenging in other people's houses or restaurants etc. I wonder if there is some way you can temporarily add wheels to a chair? He's not at the stage of needing a wheelchair yet so we don't really want to go down that route until he is,

thanks in advance,

Kate

[Derkie54]

Hello,

I don't have any solutions for restaurants etc but for home I bought an overbed table which has wheels and was height adjustable so I was moving the table to my wife rather than moving my wife to the table.

[Gill-C]

Restaurant chairs are sometimes ridiculously heavy. At home we have 4 legged (quite light) dining chairs, which pivot round from the seat - so the chair stays half way under the table but twists round for me to sit and then I can twist to face the table. Sounds more complicated than it is - most dining chair stockists have them. Probably wouldn’t work if one is of very big build. Good luck!

[Hightidelowtide]

In restaurants/cafes I find it easier just to move the table over my partners legs, rather than slide his chair in. No one seems to mind!

[Hightidelowtide]

And at home we use an office chair on wheels

[Blueirises]

Get as close as possible then move the table. Restaurant staff always offered to help, chose carefully!

[CanAmK]

Might I recommend not using wheels? They can really become unsafe at any stage of this. Maybe try putting tennis balls on the legs (use a carpenter knife to make an X in it to slide on) and then it will slide easily.

Krista

[JMHS29]

Hi. Not sure if this would help but would a swivel seat/pad work for your husband? Lots available online. Means you may not have to move the chair if he can sit down side ways then turn himself to face a table. Also portable for times when you are out. I have absolutely no experience of these but someone else might. Hope you get something that helps.