I am an active senior with reliable housing living in an isolated village with poor transportation. My car is an old beater but it runs ok if I don’t drive it much. If I move to a larger center I will loose my subsidized housing.
I have been diagnosed with spinal stenosis in my entire back making me very crippled up. I can walk only a few feet at a time but pull myself along with my feet in an old wheelchair as I can’t use my arms well enough to use the wheel bars. I am in constant pain and spend most of my days laying in bed to try controlling the pain. I ‘earned’ this condition from working too long and too hard in my youth. Wish I had a time machine.
All I really want is a lightweight electric wheelchair so I can drive into town to do my shopping and attend social events using the electric chair to drive around in the stores or venues. Right now I am terribly isolated and in danger of becoming depressed or worse. I am a generally happy person and love to volunteer etc. but now I just lay in bed rotting away. I am unable to attend physio therapy due to the distance from the parking lot to the clinic without the help of a chair. The chair I want needs to be light enough to lift into a small car. If I fold it up or take it apart I should be able to handle that. The ones I want are on Amazon and cost around $2500 Canadian.
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