Life in a Wheelchair ♿
My time in a wheelchair was brief and even then I struggled. I hated how much I relied on others to help and how much independence I lost. I had an accident in Morocco causing me to sprain one ankle and have a grade 3 ligament tear to the other. Granted I'm used to being able to work and do my own thing at all time and I had a old fashioned wheelchair, not one that was electric that I could control, so it was a massive change. Having said that, what I experienced in terms of judgement and accessibility really opened my eyes to how people must live. On holiday there was a show stage down 3 steep flights of stairs. There was absolutely no way I could make it down them so the staff took me a different way. It was a staff only way with steep ramps, underground tunnels and even then, still a small flight of stairs. I didn't feel safe going down the dilapidated staff access tunnels but when they brought me to the stairs I was shocked. They said it was wheelchair accessible and...