Yesterday i gave an old power wheelchair to a quadriplegic who has been waiting 2 years to get one through Medicare. The smile on his face knowing that he can now get around was priceless. It makes no sense that we have to pass on our used wheelchairs and supplies in order to give people some quality of life. We will change that so people in need can move on.
Here is an iBOT commercial that shows what they can do. These chairs need to be made again.
About Me
- Alan T. Brown
- MY ACCIDENT Twenty-one years in a wheelchair…so hard to believe. On January 2, 1988 I was lying in the surf in Martinique, the undertow had pulled my legs out from under me and flipped me upside down onto the hard sand. Face down under the water and unable to breathe I knew something was dramatically wrong. I was in the prime of my life and now immobile...nothing moved. I was paralyzed. How could this have happened? My life flashed in front of me...playing ice hockey, walking around New York City, running races in Central Park, throwing baseballs . . .In a split second my life changed forever. At the age of 21--a quadriplegic -confined to a wheelchair. How would I continue?
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