I desperately need to get to one appointment with vocational rehabilitation, because they will purchase the $40,000 Permobil power chair with a Puff and sip navigation system so I would not have to be in the bed 24 seven as I currently have been for years.
They have a rule that without any exceptions, a potential client must show up at their office for one initial appointment. I have begged for someone from my family to provide transportation for me to one appointment for quite a while now, and it is become painfully obvious no one is going to step up to the plate and assist me in this endeavor, so I'm asking you guys what can I do to hire somebody like a taxi for wheelchair people and an attendant, because I'm paralyzed from the neck down so I cannot possibly use my arms to wheel myself around to even get into the building. I don't even know what to search for to find out how to do this so please explain it to me as if I knew nothing, because I truly don't know anything about this. Since my arms became paralyzed, I've only been out of my room at the nursing home on Thanksgiving and Christmas when one of my children would come take me home each year. And to sit in the horrible wheelchair they provide for me at the nursing home, is so uncomfortable I cry even though they line it with bed pillows underneath my bottom and back and feet. And when I had my power chair, the chair was fully articulating and was much more comfortable than being in bed. Whenever I needed to I could reposition myself in the chair without having to wait for somebody to come assist me, which is a constant dilemma in an understaffed nursing home. As an aside, I need someone to come stretch my legs and arms every day to move them because I get unbearable cramps which I did not get when I had a volunteer coming to stretch me every day, but she had to go back north. Please advise me as to how I could hire someone to do this or get someone from Medicaid to provide this service for me. Debra Scruggs-Scruggs phalanx-dragon slayers -PRISONER OF HOPE ZECH. 9 Formerly: Homeschooling mom of 9 and pvt. pilot Currently: Quadrapeligic due to advanced MS and living in a nursing home Phone: 561-588-4333 SC student 20yrs ROMANS 8:28 B.I.B.L.E.-BASIC INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE LEAVING EARTH
