Hello
everyone. I hope you all are having a great afternoon today. In today's
entry I'm going to tell you about two special people that have helped make sure
of two important things, both when I was young and to this day. One being
that I had the right wheelchair and the other being that I was sitting
correctly in the chair. I will be jumping around a little as far as
my timeline goes so bear with me. Lets get started.
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might be thinking I could just go out and buy any electric wheelchair and sit
down in it, and I'm ready to go right? Wrong! Since I'm on Medicare
and Medicaid, I'm only eligible for a new chair every five years.
Not every wheelchair company works with Medicare and Medicaid. Before you can
get a chair they have to approve everything before they will pay for it.
This
is why I have used ATG Rehab all my life to get my chairs. When I was about 14 and a half, I moved in
with my grandma and grandpa. At that time I was falling over in my chair and
had saliva falling out of my mouth. My grandma knew we had to do
something because I could not do anything. She spent about a week on the
phone calling all around and we found a doctor that specialized in Cerebral
Palsy. The problem with the doctor was that she only came to town once
every three months for 2-3 days from Wheeling, WV. When my grandma called to
make the appointment they said they were booked up for a year. My grandma
started crying on the phone and the lady said come on in. This was at the
former St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Dayton and the doctor's name is Ellen Kitts.
My
grandma also knew that she would probably want some major adjustments on my
chair and I had one guy down at ATG Rehab that did all the work on my chair
named Steve. That day of the appointment he cleared his schedule so he
could go with us to the doctor that day.
In my next entry I’ll let you know what happened when we got to see Dr.
Kitts.
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