I don't know if they are small enough, but here are some pediatric
wheelchairs: https://www.1800wheelchair.com/category/pediatric-wheelchairs/
On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 5:14 AM Ismael Cavazos <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hello guys October 8 is going to be 37 years that I've been a quadriplegic
> paralyzed from the neck down and connected to a respirator I was 18 years old
> I was 18 days away that I was going to turn 19 when the doctors told my
> mother at that time that I was going only survive 72 hours beside before my
> accident I was already legally blind but when I was born I was completely
> blind after 6 surgeries on my eyes I started seeing a little I started seeing
> when I was 11 years old doctors consider me legally blind I could see a
> little better than nothing most of my life since I been a quadriplegic I was
> in the nursing home 2001 I got out I was scared to get out because like I
> said most of my life I was in the nursing home I thought it wasn't possible
> for person in my condition to be out from the nursing home and connected to a
> respirator I knew it that I did not need to prove to no one that I was able
> to do it outside the nursing home that I needed to prove only to myself it
> was hard and scary in the beginning with God help I continued being outside
> the nursing home and I was the right choice I did for myself since I been a
> quadriplegic only one time bed sore and I was in the nursing home since then
> I haven't had one until now my body is 100% better than any quadriplegic that
> is in the nursing home no rashes no bed sores at all I used to get more sick
> when I was in the nursing home I used to go more often to the hospital when I
> was in the nursing home when I was there out of the ear I used to go to the
> hospital 5 times out of the year it wasn't one thing was another but I was
> getting more sick now that I'm out sometimes I go one time out of the year to
> the hospital or sometimes to years passed by and I don't go to the hospital
> at all I been blessed many times different ways several times and I've been
> lucky the only thing I'm not getting any younger like I said I'm blessed and
> I am continually being bless by Jesus let me tell you guys something else on
> Friday I met this couple they have a little boy that is 4 years old he is
> paralyzed from the neck down and also connected to a respirator's he is very
> alert the sad thing about it is not able to talk and also he has a tooling
> inside his nose so he can eat his mother and father was telling me they were
> trying to get him a wheelchair but according medicate they told his mother
> and father medicate doesn't cover his wheelchair because there's no
> wheelchair for his age because she's too small that I have to wait until he
> gets older so he can get a wheelchair I do not agree on that and mother and
> father doesn't know too much about programs out there they don't know
> anything about people with disability they got other kids but there are
> walking but the different from me and you guys yes we were young when our
> accident happened by we had a chance to walk to run to play we know how it
> feels to do that this little boy never had a chance to run to plate to enjoy
> to be a child that is sad every 1 of us we been blessed different ways sense
> are accidents happen some of us we had her mother and father like him we grew
> up and some of us we don't have our mother or father anymore by one way
> another we got bless by got put us somebody special and our life to be part
> of our life to help us and to understand this like I said we were young and
> we had a lot of dreams about those dreams went down the drain when we end up
> being a quadriplegic whenever going to have a chance to catch up what we miss
> we are able to defend ourselves to fight for our rights and say what hurts or
> doesn't hurt what we don't like and what we like some of us been a
> quadriplegic longer than others now going back about this little boy she is
> going to grow up like us his parents not going to be there when he gets old
> is not able to talk you not able to say what hurts or doesn't hurt cannot
> express herself his feelings that is very sad is not able to fight for his
> right if in the future is not able to talk like he cannot talk right now now
> in the future if he's able to talk that will help them a little we had a
> chance to go to school and we learn how to read and spell in the future for
> this little boy if you continue the way is wet out communicating is going to
> be very bad in the future brother and sisters probably not going to be there
> for him he probably going to end up in the nursing home like I did in the
> nursing home is terrible's that's why I say we been blessed compare to him
> yes we got problems in life this and that but this little boy 80% more
> problems what we have when his mother and father told me about his condition
> they put me to think right now his parents take care of him at home let me
> ask you this guys do you know if it's true what medicate and Medicare told
> his mother and father I don't agree on that and I don't believe in that
> there's got to be a wheelchair for his size for somebody could push him
> around I've never seen a wheelchair that small have you guys seen a
> wheelchair that small I would like to help this little boy but I don't know
> where to start any ideas you guys have will be appreciated thank you and God
> bless you
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