Yesterday Peter drove me down to Thetford to the East Anglian Driveability Centre where I had an assessment of my driving.
This included an assessment of my physical abilities and chatting through my concerns with an Occupational Therapist. I then had an assessment of my reaction times and strength for braking on a driving rig.
I was then able to go out in an adapted car and try 2 different adaptations - hand controls and a left foot accelerator. Both were really odd to start with - especially trying to brake gently with my left foot after years of pushing the clutch down hard!
They have said that I am okay to continue driving locally until we sort out which option we are going to go down. The car adaptation only works with automatic cars so now we have decisions to make about which of our current cars to replace and what type of adaptation would be best in the long term.
This week I also got my new carbon fibre splint. As yet I haven't had much chance to try it out so will now need to experiment with what it works well for and which shoes I can use it with.
