Kintropy In Action

Since the play-structure was done I've been brainstorming on adapting it for Hannah.  The first point of order is getting the swing area friendly for her.   When I would stand her and lean her against the swing  like in the following picture there was a 50% chance her g-tube would fall out. 

This was a bit stressful.

Every time I would look at swings for people with disabilities most of them would come with a heavy price tag.  Things ranging from thousands of dollars for a swing one a person rolls a wheelchair onto to others that had a three hundred dollar to six hundred dollar price tag for the support Hannah needed to be independent in a swing.

So I came up with an idea of buying a rock climbing harness for Hannah and attaching that to the swing set.  The harness was around seventy-five dollars.  The carabiners or rock climbing clips were around seven to fifteen dollars.    I got everything attached and it worked pretty well. 

We could work on standing along with swinging without killing my back.  The only thing is I still had to be right with her and she kept wanting to do back bends where she could fall out.

So I was looking for something else the one day and found the perfect swing for a reasonable price.  I asked the grandparents if they were interested in funding it.  They said sure.  So now Hannah has a great swing.  It is meant for indoors so I disattach it and reattach it as we use it. 

-Mom

PS.  So my next step is to develop a pulley system for pulling her up the slide and eventually into the swing.  I will be using the rock climbing harness for that.  As I was researching links for this site I found a better rock climbing harness idea.  I think it will end up on Hannah's Hanukkah list.