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#1 User is offline   kate42 

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Posted 06 March 2009 - 01:34 AM

This picture kinda makes me laugh.

http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/0...lchair-fail.jpg

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Posted 06 March 2009 - 02:00 AM

Those "lawn chair" wheelchairs are actually given - and made at a very low cost - to developing countries for the disabled that can't afford our "fancy" chairs that we roll in. When hubby & I were in China back in '05 we saw patients at the hospital we were staying at riding around in them and parked in various spots around the hospital. It really blew our minds. At first we were like what the heck are those things?! Then it sunk in, and we felt like such jerks complaining about our 5 year old quickies that were a bit clunky to us. Every where we went all the doctors and nurses admired our chairs reiterating the fact that we are sooo lucky.

Okay, I just found a picture from china with one of those chairs in it. If you squint at the upper left corner you can see it.
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Posted 06 March 2009 - 02:24 AM

For those interested in the creator of this chair and an organization sending these wheelchairs around the world, here are two links

Don Schoendorfer
http://www.amw.com/call_to_action/detail.c...&detail=yes

Free Wheelchair Mission
http://www.freewheelchairmission.org/
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Posted 08 March 2009 - 09:32 PM

Oh, wow, I didn't know they actually made those. That's cool. I feel like a jerk for laughing now. *slaps self in face*
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Posted 09 March 2009 - 01:04 AM

Having just this week gotten a brand new electric wheel chair from the VA, and then reading this thread, I think I'll work on my sense of gratitude for a while.
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when it absolutely, positively, has to be destroyed overnight, call the Marines.

I will nevah, EVAH take a pinch from a greasy muddahf*@kah like you!

How 'bout if I spell it out for ya. D-I-L-L-I-G-A-F
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Posted 09 March 2009 - 05:54 AM

View PostE-DOG, on Mar 8 2009, 05:04 PM, said:

Having just this week gotten a brand new electric wheel chair from the VA, and then reading this thread, I think I'll work on my sense of gratitude for a while.
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Amen brother............................
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