Sheila.Fava@f720.n209.z1.fidonet.org (Sheila Fava) (05/25/90)
Index Number: 8509 This is not -exactly- along the lines of your message, Marc: I called the wheelchair rental place (Abbey-Foster) and they tell me you will have to stay a month here in order for medicaid to pick up the rental tab. Three-wheeled scooters (Amigo) rent for $100/week, powerchairs rent $150/week and manual chairs rent for $75/week. The advice I got was to bring a GEL battery powerchair with you, or borrow a three-wheeled Amigo or manual chair. Most tourists and vacationers here RENT a car instead of trusting that a Taxi-Van will be available. Now to the topic of your message: I am a disABLED competitive swimmer and at the competitions I have gone to, the disABLED athlete out on his/her own for (possibly) the first time is woefully prepared for the social atmosphere found there. I -do- wish parents or a surogate parent would discuss frankly the facts of life, the birds'n'bees and anything else that is needed to be known. My timezup! later. ---Sheila. -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!209!720!Sheila.Fava Internet: Sheila.Fava@f720.n209.z1.fidonet.org
Joe.Chamberlain@f140.n150.z1.fidonet.org (Joe Chamberlain) (06/04/90)
Index Number: 8598 SF> The advice I got was to bring a GEL battery powerchair with SF> you, or borrow a three-wheeled Amigo or manual chair. Most SF> tourists and vacationers here RENT a car instead of trusting SF> that a Taxi-Van will be available. Traveling with an electric chair is easy if you take the chair and arrange to have batteries waiting for you. I have bought a set of batteries for about $80. Much cheaper than renting a chair for a week. If you buy the sealed battery then you can ship it back home to yourself via Greyhound. -=joe=- -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!150!140!Joe.Chamberlain Internet: Joe.Chamberlain@f140.n150.z1.fidonet.org