Congrats V,
I am so happy to hear you are mobile again. I have a Jazzy scooter from The Scooter Store that gets me around. Oh and did you know you can use it to walk your dog. Last September, after my stepmom told me how depressing my life was I decided getting a dog from the shelter was the perfect solution. In the beginning I had intended to walk him myself, but I fractured my pelvis which required me to use my scooter. I just attach him to the left arm and we go all over town, to the park, and everyone talks to us/Charlie and if they don't I introduce them to Charlie. It has changed my life and I know half the town now. People in cars and on bikes wave and shout Charlie out the car window. Charlie is a Maltipoo and weighs about 14 lbs. I would recommend something a little smaller as he can be a handful when he sees squirrels and cats. You are going to have a wonderful new life with Molly. Happy Trails, Deana
V,
So happy you have a scooter! They are wonderful, gives you back SO much that RA takes away. I have always said if RA makes it hard to walk or get around, this is the answer for sure! Sounds like you got a nice one, good looking scooter in the pic! I like the basket too! I have a power chair, relented to putting a back pack on the back of the seat to carry things. I also built a rig on my new one to hold the dog leash. Its so nice to get out and about like we used to! I am sure you will have many great years getting around on "Molly"! :)
a long time ago, I had a guy who when he was 17 had borrowed one of the wheelchairs in his local mall "to see what it was like" (that he had been that astute as a teenager convinced me to make sure we became friends and we still are). He then told me that the thing that struck him the most was that people didn't have eye contact with them. At which point I said "people have eye contact with strangers??" I had no idea. I've used a wheelchair since I was 16 and have a completely different experience of human interaction.
Thanks so much for the tips to consider when shopping for a scooter. My mother will probably need one in the next year to and it had not occurred to me that three wheels could be a balance issue. I will definitely remember that one.
I was wondering… Is it possible for you to use Molly when you're at work? It might shut up some of the naysayers in your office.
So glad you found a way to be part of life again. Hooray for Molly!
Cool, I got a power chair for comfort and manouverability options, unfortunately I cant get it into my car, and have no one to help me so am applying for government funding to get a special lifting device.
I sometimes borrow scooters at shopping centres, but it is really too hard now as there is too much walking to get to the place where you pick them up. If you read my new post you will see the current dramas.
I am using my power chair in the house and loving it though. It is true about people not looking at you and it is hard not to feel like less of a person when using it. All silly and untrue so just gotta speak to my head about it. Have to also resist the urge to run over the toes of the starers and avoiders
Have fun. BY the way, keepit well charged, I ran out of power in the middle of a large shopping centre once.
LOL....oh, Wonderwoman, what did you do when you ran out of power???
I'm sorry you are having so much trouble w/your knee and hip. When things get like that for me, I take just one day at a time. To think of everything is just too overwhelming.
You hang in there. Your positive attitude, and dare I say "good stuborness", will see you thru. You are in my thoughts and prayers, sweet lady.
V
ha ha, V I love the term "good stubborness", years ago I read a poem by I don't know who that and the example my mother and grandmother set me as they struggled with sickness without losing their smiles, caused me to be stoic.
Only know do I really know what they went through, although none of them had the joint operations I have had.
It was the shop's scooter, at first my friend tried to push me and it, that failed, so I hopped out of the store, informing the staff that I had left their chair in the aisle
In this world of toil and trouble, two things stand like stone, kindness in another's trouble, courage inyour own.
Thanks for your prayers, likewise. 
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Brilliant, thank you so much for sharing this wonderful story, a glimpse into the life of someone else with RA I am glad that Molly has enabled you to do so much more and continue to enjoy life. I am sure this will be invaluable encouragement to others on the brink of needing a mobility scooter, very uplifting.
Thank you for your kind words.
I honestly don't know why I waited so long to get and use Molly. Without her I would be confined to my house and my car...I could hobble around to church and the grocery maybe, but even that would be painful. I am so thankful there are such things as scooters. Molly has given me a bit of my life back! If you ever consider getting one, then you probably needed it like yesterday! Thanks again for your comment.
V