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Anyway.. on the plus side.. they cant run away..

Good for him. In my experience, the only things that will get you through situations like that are the encouragement and help from family and friends plus your own determination. Doctors are wrong all the time. I'm not saying anything against the medical profession because i think they do a great job with the little funding they have but what they know is based on experience and what they learn in medical school i.e. text books. Some things don't allow for that and aren't what they seem.

When i was born, my parents were told i probably wouldn't survive ( i was even given the last rites when i was two days old) and if i did i would be in a wheelchair for the rest of my life. Well I'm still here and i only ever use a wheelchair if i'm going for a beer once or twice a week

Coz you drink so much you need to be pushed home?

can I borrow it?

Haha noo

I hate being pushed around

Well you can sit on my lap

Ooweee

I agree.. I had some experience of this for a few years when my daughter was in a wheechair..

we (she) were frickin invisible most of the time.. OR getting getting huffed and puffed at for being in the way..

When I used to travel up and down to London with her.. on the trains and in the underground.. it also made me realise HOW little help there.. or disabled facilities.

I had to leave the wheelchair and all my luggage on the floor at the bottom of one of the giant Paddington escalators.. carry my daughter up throo the hoards of people.. LAY her on the floor while I went back down again to bring the other stuff up.. while people completely ignored us or looked the other way..

I couldnt BELIEVE IT!!! I was trying so hard not to cry.. and may have shouted a bit a one man.

I had a roommate in Texas who was quadriplegic... he dove in the water at the beach and broke his neck. He couldn't use his hands but he could move his arms some. His favorite thing to do was get stoned and drink some beers and ride on the bus faking Tourettes syndrome. He was a great guy, aside from his obnoxious habits of screaming for help when he wanted a cigarette, and asking ANYONE that came to the house if they could run to the store for him and get him beer. He died in the hospital from pneumonia.

to stay true to the thread.. his asexual girlfriend loved him very much, and he was a very good friend of mine. And for the record my paraplegic friend here in Michigan taught me how to pop wheelies in his chair. I've lived with crippled people, I have friends that are crippled. Most of them are honest about it and hate the politically correct BS like "differently abled"

I hadn't heard that before.

haha @ pop wheelies

Yeah you get ignorant people sometimes. It depends really. Some days people will completely ignore you even if they see you struggling and other times you will get people who go out of their way to help you. A lot of places these days are still not wheelchair accessible especially train stations so i tend to avoid them.

Yeah.. at rush our at Paddington.. the people would knock my daughters wheelchair bloody FLYING!..

in the end I got her to sit with her crutches sticking out..

THAT slowed them down.... or tripped them up..

Rush hour*

Sorry to hear about your friend.


God, I hate that word!

Yeah i love to pull wheelies. People are afraid i will go on my ear but i never do

Yet!... don't try it on the way home from the pub tho..

Yeah i do that all the time too Its just people being considerate. They are always rushing and never stop to think of others.

Another thing i hate is when you are in town on a busy street and people are walking so fast and i am in the wheelchair, they don't take much notice where they are working so when they are get to a couple of inches from me, they stop like a deer caught in headlights and EVENTUALLY move out of the way

Oh Yeah???

You should see how fast my son goes when he has a flat, wide open space in front of him and my hand is not on the chair handles.

He may not be too bright, but he sure is fast

Funny you should say that

I got stopped coming home from a party one night for being drunk in charge of a wheelchair

I was pulling wheelies and they were afraid i would hurt myself. They insisted on giving me a lift home. They let me off with a caution but that was fun explaining that to my family

oops INconsiderate i mean

You need to glue the kitchen knives to the wheels.. yanno.. like a home made Boadicea (Boudica?)

hahaha I can see it now.. people dropping like flies on the way through Saturday morning Woolworths..