I am an officer for a government agency working at a disability welfare office and I got to see the coolest thing today.
A homeless man, Charlie, came in with a power wheelchair that didn't work. Its batteries would no longer charge. As I was pushing him around the office, first to get checked in, then to an outlet to get some charge in his batteries, then back to a window. A woman noticed us and asked Charlie if his chair was dead and how long he had it.
He's needed it for about three years now, after he got stabbed in the back of the neck leaving him paralyzed(瘫痪的) on the left side. He's on disability and doesn't have much money to replace the battery which will now only hold a charge for about ten minutes, so he mostly just pushes himself around with his right foot, traveling backwards.
The Woman, Diane, explained that her brother is also paralyzed and they have an older chair that they're not using. She asked Charlie if he would like it. Charlie said yes.
Diane left and came back about an hour later. She asked me to take the new chair out. Now, I don't know much about powered wheelchairs, but I can tell this is no basic model. It not only drives, it can lift up, recline, and do other things too. It turns out like a chair of $20,000.
Charlie looked it over and said it sure is nice. But Diane tells us there's one small problem. The new chair won't charge because it hasn't been used in two years. So what does Diane do? She takes it over to the Medical Supply Store and put new batteries in it to get it working.
In 13 years of law enforcement and security work, I've never seen anything like that.
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