I'm guessing you are in Florida? http://fssrc.phhp.ufl.edu/content/palm-tran-connection-para-transit
http://www.careforflorida.org/list14_florida_disability_transportation_senior_services.htm On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 7:24 AM, DEBRA DEW <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
