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00:00Hey guys, welcome back to my channel. I'm Chelsea. I do videos here all about
00:05lifestyle and dance and fashion and today's video I'm going to be showing
00:10you guys how I do daily transfers inside of my home. I have one transfer that is
00:16from car to chair but I wanted to show you guys because it's very highly
00:19requested, you guys are asking for this, how I do very basic transfers day to day.
00:24So without further ado, let's get into it. Alright so the first transfer we're
00:30doing is a chair to couch, couch to chair. Now my couch is really low so I don't
00:36think a lot of couches are this low but usually what I do is I bring it to an
00:40angle, of course lock my brakes, some of you might call me a rookie and do it
00:44without brakes but this is how I do it. So what I do is I scoot, so I lift with my
00:49arms, I'm scooting my butt to the front of my seat and I bring one leg down, the
00:58other leg down and then I usually grab either the frame of the chair or I grab
01:03here, usually the frame because then I can get more of a pivot and then I put one
01:07hand on where I'm transferring and I put, I put my face, my face forward if I could, if I'm
01:13saying that right, my head forward and then I go one, two, three and then I just
01:18shift and then usually my feet just kind of go where they're supposed to and
01:25that's how I transfer. Hi monkey, hello and then to get back to my chair obviously
01:31like this is a little bit further up so I'm going to scoot back to the edge of
01:37the couch and my couch is very fluffy, bless you, my couch is very fluffy. So then I
01:42have to pivot my feet to make sure that you know if they're like this and then I
01:46transfer on it doesn't, my ankles don't twist weird so I always move my feet to
01:52where they're supposed to be and then I pull this closer. Whenever I transfer up
01:56I'm always like almost pulling my hand, my right hand down. I transfer with my
02:01right side usually it's like my dominant side but I pull in and down so having
02:08my chair resting up against the couch really helps so I'm just gonna get like
02:12you know as close as I can and then I'm gonna put my head down and I'm gonna push
02:17up my arms so I'm gonna go up and push. Definitely take some practice but it's
02:23definitely definitely doable and gets easier as we go on. So next one. Alright so
02:29our next transfer is a chair to floor floor to chair. Celebrate is coming back to
02:34hang out with us but what I usually do is if it is an option being able to rest your
02:39chair up against something will help when you're getting back in or you're
02:44getting down it doesn't like slide away from you. Um, bless you!
02:51So what I do is this one is always has always been like a really hard one I think
02:57for everyone. So of course I get to the edge of my chair and now this is how I do
03:03it. I kind of just slide down and hope for the best. A lot of you guys might just get
03:08down differently but I'm just showing how I do it. So I obviously put both legs out
03:13and I just kind of slide. So this is you just grab onto the frame and just kind of slide and then I just
03:23kind of say whoop whoop like that. Hi Vicky! And then I get to play with Stella Bear. She gets excited when I get on the ground. Hi! Hi!
03:32So that's how I get down and for those of you um you know that are wanting to try
03:40this out obviously I would do this with someone at home you know someone like an
03:43able-body or a friend just to like make sure everything's good but I always go
03:48super super slow and I have to kind of overcompensate for the weight going in
03:53the front. I have to kind of lean far back or else my chair will go like that. I gotta get back up now!
04:00Okay so the next thing that we're gonna do is I'm gonna show you guys how I get
04:05from the floor to the chair. Now this was a very hard one for me to really kind of
04:13like grasp. When I was in the hospital the nurses showed me how they did it and I
04:20was like y'all are using your legs and you don't realize it. So never thought it was
04:25actually important to learn but I do feel like it is important. I have been in
04:29scenarios where I've fallen out of my chair and I've been alone and I had to
04:33figure out how to get back up. Now if I fell here you know at any point I would
04:38obviously use the couch to get here. I would kind of probably push up like that
04:43if I could or I would kind of get onto my hands and knees get here pull myself up
04:48struggle to get to here but I want to show you guys how I'm getting from the
04:52floor to the chair if I didn't have a couch around me. Okay let's do it. Okay a
04:58lot of you guys are gonna say to do it like this probably because which I don't
05:04know how y'all do this. I can't like I don't know how you guys do that because I've
05:11had people literally say do like a dip this way. Y'all are crazy. I don't have that
05:17time. My muscles haven't built that way yet. Okay so what I do, this might be a
05:22little bit more difficult for people but it works for me, is I always figure out
05:26what side is my dominant side. So I have to, you need to move, you need to move.
05:32Just scoot your booty, just scoot your booty, just a little bit. Okay so I put one leg
05:39over. Let me see, am I going this way? This way, yeah. We'll go this way. So I'm gonna go on to my left side or you can go on to your right side.
05:46So I put my left over my right leg and I grab my frame and I push up with my
05:52right hand and I kind of, I'm gonna balance on my knees. And then I put my
05:58chest on my chair and I kind of get a little bit closer and then my hand is
06:04back here. So then I'm just gonna push up. So I'm balancing on my knees and then I'm
06:09gonna push up like this and then I'm gonna twist. So now I'm on my side guard, not
06:16on it but just resting. And then I twist. Hold on, we got this. And then I lean back.
06:27There we go. There we go. Hard to do it on top. But basically what I did was I
06:35leaned over this way so I could get my, so I could balance on my right hand to
06:40then twist to then push up this way. So I was facing you guys front and I was facing
06:47this way. I was getting up this way with my legs down. I had to balance more on this
06:52side of my chair in order to let go of my left hand to reach around to then come
06:58up like this. So then of course I put my legs on my chair but yeah that's how I get
07:03from my chair to the floor or floor to chair without like a couch or anything
07:07around me. Next one. Alright so the next transfer that I'm gonna be doing is a
07:14chair to barstool, barstool to chair. Now this barstool is a little bit lower than
07:22normal one so if I was going to like a bar or something I would probably have like
07:26Jay lift me up and help me get up there. So what I'm gonna do is I move it out
07:32and obviously lost my brakes. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna push up on the
07:37barstool or I go like this. It depends on like how I'm feeling. Usually I push up on
07:42this so I think I'll just go on here that way. There you go. And then I just move my
07:51feet over. And then I scoot back. And then I just move the chair like that. And the chair sits next to me.
08:06So that's how I get up and I love any chance I get to get out of my chair. Feels like
08:12amazing. I also have very cushiony chairs around my house. I'm actually getting rid
08:17of these ones. But I love that's like one thing that I was really drawn to about
08:22barstool like the chairs that I have in my house. Everything is very cushiony. So I
08:27didn't have to worry about any pressure stores. So now to get out I just maneuver
08:33my chair this way. So what I learned in rehab is you want the cushion to be as
08:40close to your butt as possible. So obviously this would be terrifying because you
08:46got to jump over that. Your legs got to get over it. You got like it's a whole
08:49ordeal. So being able to have the cushion as close to your butt first off is
08:55really important. So I put my feet down first because I feel like if I don't then
09:01they'll get stuck up here. So I just move my feet first. And then I'm gonna push off
09:05of the counter. And then I'm just gonna maneuver my way down. And then again then I'm in.
09:14And the next one we're going to be doing is a chair to bed. Bed to chair. Now I get a lot of
09:23things like oh do you sleep in your chair? How do you sleep? How do you do this? No. I don't sleep in
09:29my chair. And I'm gonna show you guys how I get out of my chair. Let's go. Okay so the
09:34first thing that I do is I of course bring I usually transfer in to the right
09:40but because of where we are I'm gonna show you guys how I transfer to the left.
09:42So being able to put my chair kind of at a diagonal. Of course lock my brakes. I can
09:50do it without my brakes locked but I want to make sure I show it with brakes
09:53locked. Safety first. So of course scoot to the edge. What I do is I kind of move my
09:59feet. I don't know if you guys can see this. So what I do with this is you know
10:03this is I think always the part where we have to be careful of our ankles. So I
10:07get my my feet to like the edge of my foot plate or even the not really the
10:12floor because I feel like if my feet go to the floor I'm kind of short so it will
10:16like pull me down when I transfer I'll just kind of like slip. So I put my my
10:21ankles a little bit further out and of course I push I'm gonna push down like
10:25this. So push down and shift and my head stays forward like this just to kind of
10:30compensate for you know shifting my butt over. I have rods in my back so then I
10:36just bring one leg over and the other leg over and then yeah that's how I get
10:43onto the bed. Usually obviously I sleep underneath the covers like every other
10:48normal person. Next we are going to transfer it back in. So with this one
10:53because I don't really care about my feet being on the foot plate I'm going to
10:58put my feet just next to my chair so they don't need to be on the foot plate
11:03and then I'm gonna scoot to the edge and then I got to make sure that because my
11:08right one could get caught underneath my foot plate I got to make sure I bring my
11:12leg a little bit further out instead of it might slip underneath and because I'm
11:16paralyzed I can't feel where my legs are I don't want it to like twist weird. So I
11:21grab my my frame of my chair because I need room to get my butt in front of the
11:29side guards instead of on top of the side guards. If I grab the wheel sometimes
11:34I grab the wheel but I just have to like swing differently. I have to swing like
11:38under and then back instead of just like back if that makes sense. If you're
11:43paralyzed I think you'll understand what I'm saying. So I'm just gonna grab here and I'm
11:48just going to twist. I hope that helps you guys so you can actually sleep in a bed.
11:58Alright so the next one that we're going to be doing is I'm gonna show you guys how
12:03I transfer to the toilet and then how I transfer to the shower. Alright so how I
12:09transfer to the toilet. So of course locking the brakes you don't have to lock the brakes
12:14but safety first. So I push obviously to the edge of my chair and then I'm going
12:20to put one leg down here and then I'm going to grab the toilet seat cover and
12:26just shift over and pull myself back because it's a tight space. I don't know
12:31there's a habit I always put like one leg up because it's a tight space here. Gotta do the
12:35business. And then I'm going to bring one leg down. I kind of shift over onto the
12:44side of the toilet. Not for very long. Nobody wants pressure sore. And then I'm
12:48going to push up and twist over. So I'm gonna go up and twist over. Yeah? And then
12:55make sure you guys flush the toilet and then you put your legs back on. So next I'm
13:02going to show you guys how I transfer onto the shower bench. There's a little
13:05bit of a lip so it's a little bit of a maneuver on. So let's show you how I do
13:10that. Alright so this one is a little bit of a tough one. When my dad built the
13:15shower he was like you know there's gonna be a lip here. So I was like that's fine
13:19like practice makes me stronger. So there is like a maybe like a four inch lip that I
13:25have to jump over every time I shower. Now I showered this morning so my shower
13:29bench is a little wet. There's a rip in it so I might get a little wet. But what I
13:35usually do is you know obviously like the chair is facing that way so I'm gonna go
13:40in to this transfer already facing this way. Now this is a very awkward angle to
13:46like show this transfer but it is what it is. So I usually put one leg in. If I put
13:53both legs in I feel like when I transfer all my weight would kind of go forward and
13:58that's just that's just me. So I put one leg in and then I kind of maneuver my left
14:02leg where you know it won't get tangled or anything. So I put one leg in and then
14:09I'm going to kind of make sure that my leg doesn't really like slip and I'm going to
14:15grab here. I'm gonna grab behind me. Okay so I'm gonna grab behind me. I'm gonna kind of
14:20lean this way and I go one, two, three and I go up. Yeah? Now my foot is totally fine.
14:27I just kind of shift it a little bit but then I just get in this way and then what I do every
14:35day is I unlock this brake and then I pivot my chair away. I'm holding on to this glass,
14:42holding on to this chair so I have because I have really bad balance. And then I'm going
14:47to reach for this and I'm going to shut the door. Then I do my business. I shower. Shower,
14:56shower. Yeah? And then usually I have a towel here. Let me open this. Usually I have a towel
15:04up against this so then I'll dry off in here and then that way when I transfer I'm not like
15:10really slippery. So say I'm dried, okay? I open this door, grab my chair, see I'm having
15:19weight on here and here and I pivot it back around, lock my brake, I put my, ah, what?
15:27Okay so if I was really showering right now, once I move my chair here, I'm gonna put my towel
15:33over my chair. So then I transfer Nikki, okay? Nikki. So here's how I would transfer if I was Nikki.
15:42So transfer to the edge of the seat. I move over both of my feet because I'm slippery at this point.
15:51I'm going to move my chair back a little bit but I'm going to grab onto my frame and this one is always
15:57tricky, okay? So I'm going to grab my frame and grab here behind me and I'm going to shift over.
16:05So, big jump but I've done it for the last five years and it's pretty easy. So, yeah.
16:12And then I just grab the towel and I fold it over me and I dry off more and I kind of fold it in
16:18and that's how I shower.
16:21Alright guys, so this is a transfer that I don't do very often. This is a chair to tub transfer.
16:26Over the last few years of me being paralyzed, I've realized that a lot of people shower differently.
16:32A lot of people, paraplegics, very low level injuries, prefer to transfer down into a tub to shower
16:39and then get back into their chair.
16:43The only reason that I have ever had to learn how to get from the chair to the tub
16:48is whenever I have been at a hotel and they don't have a shower bench
16:53or their shower benches that have been, you know, used up.
16:57So, I have had to use a shower.
17:00Granted, obviously the pull down showers aren't, you know, in all of the hotels.
17:05So, this is how I transfer to a tub.
17:10Now, the tub that I picked out for this shower obviously is one a little bit thicker around here
17:15and then I have this little lip over here
17:18but I will transfer it from my chair to this lip here
17:22and then I will lean over and kind of bring myself down.
17:26Also, please be careful of pressure sores.
17:29You don't want to sit too long on the bottom of a tub.
17:32So, what I would usually do is once I get down, take off my seat cushion, take off the cover,
17:36sit it down there and sit on top of that just to be extra safe.
17:40Can't ever be too safe, right?
17:42So, I put my feet in first.
17:45Now, now that my body is being pulled to the left.
17:51So, I'm going to sit on to here, yeah.
17:57So, got to make sure I'm not sitting on anything.
18:00Then, my legs are starting to move but I'm going to, you know,
18:05leaning on this really helps have some sort of security.
18:08I'm going to lean over onto here and then here
18:12and then I'm just going to kind of slowly, maybe I'll leave, yeah, behind as best
18:18because then you can go here and then drop down here.
18:22And that's how I would shower.
18:25So, remember, take your seat cushion off, sit on that.
18:28It would probably be really nice to shower in here and like do like a tub and like a bath.
18:33Maybe I should do that.
18:35So, next I'm going to show you guys how I get from here to here to here, okay?
18:41Remember, this really helps.
18:43If it was thinner, it would give you a credit card, yeah,
18:46and it would probably be really bad for your tailbone, cause something,
18:49and then it's all downhill from there.
18:51So, you want, if you're building a house in your wheelchair,
18:53make sure this is nice and thick, yeah?
18:56Nobody likes a credit card.
18:58Okay, so, what I usually do is I usually try and do a little crisscross applesauce with my legs.
19:06We'll see, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
19:08Legs have a mind of their own when you can't feel them or move them.
19:12So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to do a dip and I'm going to push straight up.
19:15This is where working out really comes in handy.
19:18So, I'm going to full on do a dip up, okay?
19:21So, I'm going to do a dip up and I'm going to try and get my butt up here.
19:24So, one, my left shoulder is not as strong, so I'm going to lean on my right.
19:29Up, and then I'm going to push over, okay?
19:32And then, obviously, I didn't land where I wanted to.
19:35So, there we go.
19:37So, now I'm going to push myself back onto my chair.
19:42Yeah, so I'm here.
19:44Make sure I'm not on the, uh, curtain.
19:47So, here is where you could do two options.
19:51You could leave your feet in and just kind of pull yourself back.
19:55Or, you can put one leg over, the other leg over, and then transfer that way.
20:00I like to do that because it's safer for me.
20:06Okay.
20:07One over, the other one over.
20:10And now, obviously, the chair is at a, like, overly weird thing.
20:14So, I'm going to move over a little bit.
20:16Whoop.
20:19Okay.
20:20Just like that.
20:23And then, I'm going to position my hand like so.
20:26I'm just going to go one, two, three.
20:28And up.
20:33Okay.
20:34All right, so now that we did this, the last one that I want to show you,
20:38the most, I think, the most important transfer,
20:40is for independence, getting into the car.
20:43So, I'm going to show you guys how I get into my SUV.
20:46I have a higher up car.
20:47So, it's kind of a little bit different than transferring from, um, the same level.
20:51So, let's go check out the chair to car transfer.
20:54All right, guys.
20:55So, we are going to get into the car today.
20:59So, what I usually do to open it, pull this way, just like that.
21:06And I usually keep my, um, wheel up against the car.
21:09So, I'm going to face, my back is going to be towards you guys,
21:12but I'm still explaining what I'm doing.
21:14So, I roll in this way, transfer to the edge of my seat.
21:19I put both legs in.
21:22Some people don't.
21:23Some people put one leg in.
21:25I put both legs in.
21:26So, I grab the steering wheel, because obviously it's an SUV.
21:32It's a little bit higher up.
21:34So, I grab the steering wheel, and then I kind of like, I put my left hand behind.
21:39And I'm going to push up with my left and pull in with my right.
21:43So, push up with my left and then pull in with my right.
21:47And that's how I get in.
21:48So, I'm kind of like extending this arm and pulling in with this arm.
21:53So, I have a whole tutorial on how I get my chair in the car, and I will link that also below.
21:59It's a little bit of an older video.
22:01So, now how I get out of the car.
22:04So, I pull to the edge of the chair, and then I just lean down.
22:10Okay?
22:11And then I kind of just do the same thing, just opposite.
22:15Just up and down.
22:20So, now I'm going to show you guys again, just from the inside, where I'm placing my hands.
22:27All right.
22:28So, from the inside, I put both legs in.
22:31One, two.
22:32And then I'm going to grab the steering wheel.
22:34I'm going to push up with my left, pull in with my right.
22:36So, one, two, three.
22:37Up and in.
22:38And then I grab the oh shit handle.
22:41And then I just pull myself in like that.
22:45All right.
22:46So, getting out, I transfer to the side of here.
22:49And I grab with my right hand, go down with my left, and I just push up.
22:53And then in.
22:54Very, very simple.
22:56I definitely think the more you guys do it, the easier it will feel, and the easier it
23:01will get.
23:02All right, guys.
23:03So, that's it for today's video.
23:04Thank you so much for watching.
23:05This was a very highly requested video over on my Instagram.
23:08So, I hope I answered some of your questions on how I transfer to different surfaces inside
23:13of my home.
23:14I threw in the little car transfer, because I feel like that was also very important.
23:17So, if you like this video, please give it a thumbs up.
23:20It helps me understand what you guys like.
23:23And also, comment below on other videos you guys want me to do.
23:26And thank you guys so much for watching, and I'll see you in my next video.
23:29Bye!
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