Community Chat

[LilacTree]

. . . to use a wheelchair in public? I don't need one for just getting around my apartment or short "run in, run out" type little trips into a grocery store or a pharmacy for two or three things. But for anything like attending a street festival in town, or going to one of my granddaughter's softball games, it is very difficult for me. I can't stand for more than a few minutes, nor walk very far without resting, and I can't sit on a bench that doesn't have back support.

My youngest daughter had a two-day outside merchandiser event on her Main Street, and I would have loved to go, but no way I could have done it physically. She wound up having to go alone, all of her friends were busy. I was so frustrated because she would have been fine with wheeling me around, and I would have loved it, it was a beautiful day. So I'm thinking of getting a wheelchair.

I understand some older people won't do it because they find it embarrassing. Would you?