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.
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Internet: Sheila.Fava@f720.n209.z1.fidonet.orgJoe.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=-
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