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Welcome to this list
Paul! Yes, we could all write a book and more!
But your post reminded me
of something that I wanted to post here for a long time.
Essentially, a great majority of quads are on public assistance of
some sort. All of our situations differ greatly but I always
wondered that for those who can only have so
much money and so much assets [dictated by state or
county or whatever] ... how can they possibly afford a van?
Especially with the prices these days!
And even if they already
have a van ... what about all the maintenance, the insurance, and so
many other factors? Not to mention if
someone had to get a new van?
The government has
it set up whereby "the system" has many of us to be
practically destitute but does not take into consideration things like
vans, home modifications, miscellaneous medical expenditures that are
not covered by Medicaid or Medi-Cal, etc., ...... just to
scratch the surface!
It seems that we all get by
one way or another. But has anyone else ever thought of it that
way?
Lori
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Date: 6/16/2006
2:22:52 PM
Subject: [QUAD-L]
C5 Driving
Hi All,
I am a C5/6 complete quad.Fifteen years ago today I broke my
neck.I could write a book about my life as a quad,I'm sure many of you
could write a book also.I just keep on rolling.Due to a lawsuit I
received just enough money to buy a new mini-van with a ten inch drop
floor and a sliding door with a ramp.Division of Vocational
Rehab payed for the driving adaptions.The van gives me such a
feeling of freedom.The van and all the adaptions cost
$50,000.If not for the money from the lawsuit I would never be able to
afford the van.I feel bad for the many that are not able to
afford such a van.I was thinking that if I did not have that much
money,I would try to buy a used van without all the adaptions and
use some fold up ramps to enter and exit. Peace, Paul
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