My chair is getting fixed

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After much discussion, the wheelchair mechanic and the seating guy who I saw today decided I needed a side support in my new chair and a hip guide. Hip guides are basically pieces of foam that guide your hips in the right place in the wheelchair so you don't fall over as I've been doing. I had all these things in my other chair yet I was stupid enough to let them tell me I didn't need them in my new one. I don't know why I did that. I know myself better than they ever will. I suppose it has something to do with feeling like I was less disabled than I actually am. They say people fall for that all the time and the evaluators and mechanics know it. I thought I had gotten beyond that, but I guess not. Never again, I tell you. Never again. So what if they have to work a little harder or lobby the state a little more to make sure I get what I need? That's their job. Once bitten, twice shy.