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There’s not a lot of wheelchair travelers, so it’s really cool to be part of that small little community. – Renee Bruns Bruns	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Again, this is where the kindness of people has really proven me well, i’ve had tons of piggyback rides from men all over the world. I’ve had women and men come and grab the front or the back of my wheelchair and help me up a flight of stairs. So it always works out. – Renee Bruns Bruns	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What I have seen in my lifetime is just a lot more awareness, people are much more willing to help. There’s not this scariness factor of someone with a wheelchair. – Renee Bruns Bruns	Found on CNN 1 year ago
My wheelchair weighs 400 pounds. I’m about 200 pounds. That’s 600 pounds they wanted to try to lift. – Chris Hinds	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The way they killed my son, they murdered my son in a wheelchair with no legs, so they do need to do something about it, because I do I want justice for my son. – Anthony Lowe	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Elderly people go there. My mother, who was in a wheelchair, got to go there any day she wanted to get a few things, we try to have hope, because what will they have if they don't have Tops ? Even I might not want to go in there again. – Martin Bryant	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It was very hard to bring my wheelchair to the train, one part broke. We tried to do everything we could to fix it. We also didn’t know where to stay. Should we stay in Ukraine? In Warsaw? Or somewhere else in Europe? I was scared and very tired. We needed to be safe. – Oksana Kononets	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
While in the sally port of the courthouse, Goss was unhandcuffed by the correctional officer, as Goss was not to appear before the jury in restraints, while in the wheelchair, Goss grabbed the correctional officer’s sidearm and after a struggle, disarmed the correctional officer. – State Police	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Heidi Ferrer had indicated that if things got really bad Heidi Ferrer didn't know how Heidi Ferrer could continue, Heidi Ferrer didn't know how Heidi Ferrer could keep going, and I just kept saying, you know,' Just hang on, you know, hang on, medical science is moving at the quickest rate it ever has,' but I think Heidi Ferrer just felt that Heidi Ferrer was only going to diminish, Heidi Ferrer was going to lose the ability to walk, end up in a wheelchair, not be able to bathe Heidi Ferrer. – Filmmaker Nick Guthe	Found on CNN 2 years ago
But I think Heidi Ferrer just felt that Heidi Ferrer was only going to diminish, Heidi Ferrer was going to lose the ability to walk, end up in a wheelchair, not be able to bathe Heidi Ferrer. – Filmmaker Nick Guthe	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Would you believe the person who wrote that letter was kind enough to put his name and return address? it was somewhere in Northern California. And my contact told me the guy was a wheelchair-bound paraplegic. The deputy assured me they were going to this guy’s house and make sure it would never happen again. Doris and Terry were a bit relieved but it certainly brought up those fears. Those fears certainly never left Terry. – Bill Cassara	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Apart from just living, I wondered what drives me ? So I began to chase that, knowing that there was a possibility I could climb mountains, even in a wheelchair, in a way, I forgot that I was Lai Chi-wai, I could still dream and I could still do what I liked doing. – Lai Chi-wai	Found on CNN 3 years ago
She could get herself around in a power wheelchair like nobody's business. – Seraphina Harrell	Found on CNN 3 years ago
This time last year he was in a wheelchair. He was using a walker, here we are a year later. Imagine where he'll be in another year. It's incredible. – Caleb Freeman	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I got her out of her wheelchair. – Randolph Donovan	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The wheelchair isnt a restriction. Its society that creates restrictions for wheelchair users. – Garrison Redd	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I think it probably did stop Fred Newman, we believe there were three victims in a period of 18 days and once Fred Newman had the bus crash, that immobilized Fred Newman, confined Fred Newman to a wheelchair and it may have saved someone from losing their life. – Commonwealth Attorney Josh Cumbow	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I still remember the CATSA agent saying,' Well, you could get a wheelchair.' How's a one-armed guy going to run a wheelchair ? how am I going to go down a ramp and brake with one hand ? But that shouldn't even have to come up. – Stearn Hodge	Found on CNN 4 years ago
One would never put somebody in a wheelchair in a world without ramps, but that's what happens to my patients every day, so we're creating a ramp... designed for autism. – Wendy Ross	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I'm in a wheelchair, post-amputation, having a CT scan, and it came to me that this is what I want to do, and this is where I want to do it, everybody was very caring and had a common goal for me. And so you can't put a price on that. – Alma Faz	Found on CNN 5 years ago
( Empics Sport) According to the outlet, though her fellow passengers were free to walk off after a 20 minute delay, Wafula Strike was left neglected to deplane, though she had booked assistance weeks before she traveled. CAPITAL AIRLINES PASSENGERS TERRIFIED OVER MIDAIR DROP :' I DO N'T WANT TO DIE' The 49-year-old wheelchair racer and disability rights campaigner told BBC she was left waiting for 45 minutes before a London Stansted ground crew staffer came to help her. I felt angry and very neglected, it's not good when you are abandoned on a flight and everyone else is picking up their bags and walking off. – Wafula Strike	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I’ve defied what doctors thought my life would be - someone who would be wheelchair bound and unable to walk. – Bart Gee	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
This is our forever home, Eric Burkett said, holding back tears as Eric Burkett six year old son Lochlen patted his arm. There's a master bathroom that is completely accessible. There are adaptive showers so that Eric Burkett can bathe Eric Burkett and self-lowering shelves in the state-of-the-art kitchen, so that now Eric Burkett can cook again for Eric Burkett family. The idea of getting up and moving around freely without thinking about logistics. Should I use a chair ? Should I use crutches ? All that's gone, Eric Burkett said. Pointing to the wall of Eric Burkett new home outside Pittsburgh, this Marine has a few reminders from Flag Day that Eric Burkett life changed on a training mission in Morocco. That is actually of one of the prop rotors of the V-22 that crashed. On the back of that, I don't know how many Marines signed that, Eric Burkett said. The foundation started by actor Gary Sinise, best known for Gary Sinise role as Lt. Dan in the 1994 movie Forrest Gump, is trying to build 10 to 12 homes per year for severely injured veterans and first responders. It will hand over the keys to its 50th smart home this August. Donations from Home Depot, JC Penny, GE, Benjamin Moore and the Semper Fi Fund among others made Home Depot possible. Fox News first told the Burketts' story in 2014 while The Burketts ' and The Burketts ' family were recovering at Walter Reed. The Burketts ' and The Burketts ' wife were raising their four children at the time in a set of tiny rooms at the hospital. They have since given birth to twins, Nolynn and Roawyn, who are now 18 months old. A master archer, Eric Burkett began competing as a Paralympian in an effort to begin to heal after the crash. I hate shooting from a wheelchair. A lot of guys don't mind it because you're a little bit lower, you don't have to worry about this instability of your legs. – Eric Burkett	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The first thing I did was go grab Jaxon and Tony grabbed his wheelchair, tony had to grab the three oxygen tanks before it exploded. We couldn’t grab anything else. By that time the flames were up in the air. – Lindsey Oliphant	Found on FOX News 5 years ago

There’s not a lot of wheelchair travelers, so it’s really cool to be part of that small little community.

– Renee Bruns Bruns

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Again, this is where the kindness of people has really proven me well, i’ve had tons of piggyback rides from men all over the world. I’ve had women and men come and grab the front or the back of my wheelchair and help me up a flight of stairs. So it always works out.

– Renee Bruns Bruns

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What I have seen in my lifetime is just a lot more awareness, people are much more willing to help. There’s not this scariness factor of someone with a wheelchair.

– Renee Bruns Bruns

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My wheelchair weighs 400 pounds. I’m about 200 pounds. That’s 600 pounds they wanted to try to lift.

– Chris Hinds

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The way they killed my son, they murdered my son in a wheelchair with no legs, so they do need to do something about it, because I do I want justice for my son.

– Anthony Lowe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Elderly people go there. My mother, who was in a wheelchair, got to go there any day she wanted to get a few things, we try to have hope, because what will they have if they don't have Tops ? Even I might not want to go in there again.

– Martin Bryant

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was very hard to bring my wheelchair to the train, one part broke. We tried to do everything we could to fix it. We also didn’t know where to stay. Should we stay in Ukraine? In Warsaw? Or somewhere else in Europe? I was scared and very tired. We needed to be safe.

– Oksana Kononets

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

While in the sally port of the courthouse, Goss was unhandcuffed by the correctional officer, as Goss was not to appear before the jury in restraints, while in the wheelchair, Goss grabbed the correctional officer’s sidearm and after a struggle, disarmed the correctional officer.

– State Police

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Heidi Ferrer had indicated that if things got really bad Heidi Ferrer didn't know how Heidi Ferrer could continue, Heidi Ferrer didn't know how Heidi Ferrer could keep going, and I just kept saying, you know,' Just hang on, you know, hang on, medical science is moving at the quickest rate it ever has,' but I think Heidi Ferrer just felt that Heidi Ferrer was only going to diminish, Heidi Ferrer was going to lose the ability to walk, end up in a wheelchair, not be able to bathe Heidi Ferrer.

– Filmmaker Nick Guthe

Found on CNN
2 years ago

But I think Heidi Ferrer just felt that Heidi Ferrer was only going to diminish, Heidi Ferrer was going to lose the ability to walk, end up in a wheelchair, not be able to bathe Heidi Ferrer.

– Filmmaker Nick Guthe

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Would you believe the person who wrote that letter was kind enough to put his name and return address? it was somewhere in Northern California. And my contact told me the guy was a wheelchair-bound paraplegic. The deputy assured me they were going to this guy’s house and make sure it would never happen again. Doris and Terry were a bit relieved but it certainly brought up those fears. Those fears certainly never left Terry.

– Bill Cassara

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Apart from just living, I wondered what drives me ? So I began to chase that, knowing that there was a possibility I could climb mountains, even in a wheelchair, in a way, I forgot that I was Lai Chi-wai, I could still dream and I could still do what I liked doing.

– Lai Chi-wai

Found on CNN
3 years ago

She could get herself around in a power wheelchair like nobody's business.

– Seraphina Harrell

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This time last year he was in a wheelchair. He was using a walker, here we are a year later. Imagine where he'll be in another year. It's incredible.

– Caleb Freeman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I got her out of her wheelchair.

– Randolph Donovan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The wheelchair isnt a restriction. Its society that creates restrictions for wheelchair users.

– Garrison Redd

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I think it probably did stop Fred Newman, we believe there were three victims in a period of 18 days and once Fred Newman had the bus crash, that immobilized Fred Newman, confined Fred Newman to a wheelchair and it may have saved someone from losing their life.

– Commonwealth Attorney Josh Cumbow

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I still remember the CATSA agent saying,' Well, you could get a wheelchair.' How's a one-armed guy going to run a wheelchair ? how am I going to go down a ramp and brake with one hand ? But that shouldn't even have to come up.

– Stearn Hodge

Found on CNN
4 years ago

One would never put somebody in a wheelchair in a world without ramps, but that's what happens to my patients every day, so we're creating a ramp... designed for autism.

– Wendy Ross

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I'm in a wheelchair, post-amputation, having a CT scan, and it came to me that this is what I want to do, and this is where I want to do it, everybody was very caring and had a common goal for me. And so you can't put a price on that.

– Alma Faz

Found on CNN
5 years ago

( Empics Sport) According to the outlet, though her fellow passengers were free to walk off after a 20 minute delay, Wafula Strike was left neglected to deplane, though she had booked assistance weeks before she traveled. CAPITAL AIRLINES PASSENGERS TERRIFIED OVER MIDAIR DROP :' I DO N'T WANT TO DIE' The 49-year-old wheelchair racer and disability rights campaigner told BBC she was left waiting for 45 minutes before a London Stansted ground crew staffer came to help her. I felt angry and very neglected, it's not good when you are abandoned on a flight and everyone else is picking up their bags and walking off.

– Wafula Strike

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I’ve defied what doctors thought my life would be - someone who would be wheelchair bound and unable to walk.

– Bart Gee

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

This is our forever home, Eric Burkett said, holding back tears as Eric Burkett six year old son Lochlen patted his arm. There's a master bathroom that is completely accessible. There are adaptive showers so that Eric Burkett can bathe Eric Burkett and self-lowering shelves in the state-of-the-art kitchen, so that now Eric Burkett can cook again for Eric Burkett family. The idea of getting up and moving around freely without thinking about logistics. Should I use a chair ? Should I use crutches ? All that's gone, Eric Burkett said. Pointing to the wall of Eric Burkett new home outside Pittsburgh, this Marine has a few reminders from Flag Day that Eric Burkett life changed on a training mission in Morocco. That is actually of one of the prop rotors of the V-22 that crashed. On the back of that, I don't know how many Marines signed that, Eric Burkett said. The foundation started by actor Gary Sinise, best known for Gary Sinise role as Lt. Dan in the 1994 movie Forrest Gump, is trying to build 10 to 12 homes per year for severely injured veterans and first responders. It will hand over the keys to its 50th smart home this August. Donations from Home Depot, JC Penny, GE, Benjamin Moore and the Semper Fi Fund among others made Home Depot possible. Fox News first told the Burketts' story in 2014 while The Burketts ' and The Burketts ' family were recovering at Walter Reed. The Burketts ' and The Burketts ' wife were raising their four children at the time in a set of tiny rooms at the hospital. They have since given birth to twins, Nolynn and Roawyn, who are now 18 months old. A master archer, Eric Burkett began competing as a Paralympian in an effort to begin to heal after the crash. I hate shooting from a wheelchair. A lot of guys don't mind it because you're a little bit lower, you don't have to worry about this instability of your legs.

– Eric Burkett

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The first thing I did was go grab Jaxon and Tony grabbed his wheelchair, tony had to grab the three oxygen tanks before it exploded. We couldn’t grab anything else. By that time the flames were up in the air.

– Lindsey Oliphant

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

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