Calvin-CALS
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- Joined
- Sep 16, 2014
- Messages
- 42
- Reason
- CALS
- Diagnosis
- 11/2013
- Country
- US
- State
- TX
- City
- Los Fresnos
We're in process for getting a wheelchair van. It should be another month.
Patti doesn't have her rehab chair yet (also in process), but as of this week, she can't reliably stand at all. I'm moving her around in a fold-up transfer chair. (Up to now, she could transfer into a car using the door or her walker for stability as she moved into the seat.)
So, we have a month, at least, before the van comes and some places to go ...
For our long trip to the MLA clinic 5 hours away in San Antonio, Texas, we're going to rent a wheelchair van. But that's friggin' expensive – $400-500. The only place to rent one in our area, Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, is an hour away in McAllen, Texas. Prices are $100 a day plus $0.35 per mile after 100 miles. And that 100 miles will be spent picking up the van, bringing it to the house, and bringing it back.
All that is fine for the clinic trip to San Antonio, but we'd like to find cheaper options for more local trips to the doctor appointments and fun stuff.
There are no local wheelchair taxi services. :evil:
One idea I had was renting or borrowing a cargo van as we need it, getting a ramp to push her up, then strapping her down in the chair facing backwards with her chair backed up to the passenger seat. She doesn't like that idea, obviously, and it may not even be safe.
Where we live, we don't have ADA public transport – or any buses. But I'm going to contact public transportation in the nearby larger town where her doctors are and see if I can negotiate them coming outside their service area.
Another idea getting her into the car with a lift ... but the lift another piece of DME in progress with the insurance company ...
Anyone have any other ideas?
Patti doesn't have her rehab chair yet (also in process), but as of this week, she can't reliably stand at all. I'm moving her around in a fold-up transfer chair. (Up to now, she could transfer into a car using the door or her walker for stability as she moved into the seat.)
So, we have a month, at least, before the van comes and some places to go ...
For our long trip to the MLA clinic 5 hours away in San Antonio, Texas, we're going to rent a wheelchair van. But that's friggin' expensive – $400-500. The only place to rent one in our area, Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, is an hour away in McAllen, Texas. Prices are $100 a day plus $0.35 per mile after 100 miles. And that 100 miles will be spent picking up the van, bringing it to the house, and bringing it back.
All that is fine for the clinic trip to San Antonio, but we'd like to find cheaper options for more local trips to the doctor appointments and fun stuff.
There are no local wheelchair taxi services. :evil:
One idea I had was renting or borrowing a cargo van as we need it, getting a ramp to push her up, then strapping her down in the chair facing backwards with her chair backed up to the passenger seat. She doesn't like that idea, obviously, and it may not even be safe.
Where we live, we don't have ADA public transport – or any buses. But I'm going to contact public transportation in the nearby larger town where her doctors are and see if I can negotiate them coming outside their service area.
Another idea getting her into the car with a lift ... but the lift another piece of DME in progress with the insurance company ...
Anyone have any other ideas?