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It was the two hours a day I could get out of my wheelchair, which was so therapeutic for me, and then I kind of learned that I was kind of good and that I could get better. – Victoria Arlen	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The hardest thing is people making it seem like you're a completely different species, it is less' ha ha' she's in a wheelchair,'. – Mckayla Jones	Found on CNN 6 years ago
NASCAR, they want to make sure — you know, 90 years old, a lot of them are in a wheelchair or pushing carts around and walkers, that kind of thing, they don’t quite understand my abilities, I guess. Since I hadn’t driven for over three years, they sent a guy out here [from Charlotte] to test me. I had to run 50 laps on the track. I borrowed my son’s car to do it in. Then they had to have a letter from my cardiologist to make sure that my ticker was good and so my cardiologist, he put me through the whole thing. – Herschel McGriff Sr.	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Since they didn’t bend right either it would’ve been difficult to use a wheelchair or crutches. – Rowdy Burton	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Now I ’m not embarrassed to ask for a wheelchair, that’s another plus. So you try to find the good things that come out of anything, and there are good things. – Annette Funicello	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
During an emergency travel of some kind I do need to travel with my dog and it’s not just something that I do because I can, when I’m in my wheelchair I need help….I need help with doors and when I drop things… If somebody needs me, I may not have 48-hours to travel. – Joseph Worley	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
When I’m in my wheelchair I need help….I need help with doors and when I drop things… If somebody needs me, I may not have 48-hours to travel. – Joseph Worley	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We have spoken with our customer’s family to apologize. We are working with our team and our wheelchair assistance vendor at Newark to review what happened and to prevent this from happening again. – United Airlines	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
They said, ‘Oh don’t worry. When you have wheelchair assistance they stay with them and get them to the gate at the right time and that never happened, they must’ve just left her at the gate. – Denise Chase	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I was sitting in a wheelchair in hospital having muscle convulsions being told that my kidneys had shut down, it was terrifying to have someone tell you we’re going to have to stop you breathing to keep you alive. – Liam Steel	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I was not expecting any of this, my mom and I were still trying to fight the insurance, and the old motorized wheelchair was falling apart. – Meg Moore	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I saw the first human suicide bomb attack but I couldn't figure out what it was, it looked as if something exploded ... I always thought it had to be a wheelchair with lithium batteries. – Nidhi Chaphekar	Found on CNN 7 years ago
She looked like any adult or older child would in a wheelchair, she was turning around in circles, backing up. – Bev Wilson	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I had this horrible pain shooting up my back, i had to be carried up the stairs and put into a wheelchair for the rest of my stay. – Anna Pesce	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I’m deeply concerned about the wounds that you can’t see – TBI or PTS, and so here at the Invictus Games, of course we’re concerned about making sure they have the best prosthesis or the best wheelchair, the best help. These games show that they’re improving. Our focus at the Bush Center is to say: What can we do? – President George W. Bush	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It is Paul Pierce ankle, which is good news, because when Paul Pierce went down I thought it was Paul Pierce knee, of course, Los Angeles Lakers ' fans thought Los Angeles Lakers ' fans were going to bring out the wheelchair at some point, but Los Angeles Lakers ' fans didn't do that, so that was good. – Austin Rivers	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Doctors told me I’d be in a wheelchair by the high school graduation. One nurse even said, ‘You’re going to be crippled for the rest of your life. – Samantha Evans	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I went to Europe, U.S.A., southern Africa, Indonesia and Singapore, in California we went on a wheelchair trek through Yosemite. – Srin Madipalli	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's very bad taste that it's deemed' artistic' to place a celebrity figure in the position of a disabled person in an editorial sense, however in reality, the fashion industry shuns actual models who in real life, depend on these mobility aids, yet are excluded for this exact reason. Dr. Danielle Sheypuk, a clinical pyschologist and wheelchair-dependant model, agrees. – Chelsey Jay	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Drivers should look for wheelchair users on roadways and treat them like a slower moving cyclist. – Rory Cooper	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
As his cousin exited the bathroom, which was inside the room, they fired five bullets, one bullet in the head, one in the chest and three in his body, they took Azzam and placed him in the wheelchair they brought the woman in and they exited the room preventing anyone from giving medical aid to the young man lying on the floor. – Jehad Shawar	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
As his brother exited the bathroom, which was inside the room, they fired five bullets, one bullet in the head, one in the chest and three in his body, they took Shalalda and placed him in the wheelchair they brought the woman in and they exited the room preventing anyone from giving medical aid to the young man laid on the floor. – Jehad Shawar	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The VA's been right up there with disability pay, they pay for the caregiving I get in the mornings. I've got a wheelchair from them, a wheelchair ramp; those range from ($20,000) to $50,000. I have a wheelchair van (and) a special housing grant from the VA that allowed me to get an elevator so I can stay in my home and live in all of it, not just one floor. – Tim Hoyt	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The great thing is that everything on this wheelchair is automated, if I want to climb the stairs I can just drive up to them, turn around, press one button and all I have to do is control the velocity I want to drive at. The alignment on the stairs, the leveling of the wheelchair driver, is automated and he can control it, he can view the back with a back facing camera, and have a full, safe, driving experience. – Colleague Miro Voellmy	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

It was the two hours a day I could get out of my wheelchair, which was so therapeutic for me, and then I kind of learned that I was kind of good and that I could get better.

– Victoria Arlen

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The hardest thing is people making it seem like you're a completely different species, it is less' ha ha' she's in a wheelchair,'.

– Mckayla Jones

Found on CNN
6 years ago

NASCAR, they want to make sure — you know, 90 years old, a lot of them are in a wheelchair or pushing carts around and walkers, that kind of thing, they don’t quite understand my abilities, I guess. Since I hadn’t driven for over three years, they sent a guy out here [from Charlotte] to test me. I had to run 50 laps on the track. I borrowed my son’s car to do it in. Then they had to have a letter from my cardiologist to make sure that my ticker was good and so my cardiologist, he put me through the whole thing.

– Herschel McGriff Sr.

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Since they didn’t bend right either it would’ve been difficult to use a wheelchair or crutches.

– Rowdy Burton

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Now I ’m not embarrassed to ask for a wheelchair, that’s another plus. So you try to find the good things that come out of anything, and there are good things.

– Annette Funicello

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

During an emergency travel of some kind I do need to travel with my dog and it’s not just something that I do because I can, when I’m in my wheelchair I need help….I need help with doors and when I drop things… If somebody needs me, I may not have 48-hours to travel.

– Joseph Worley

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

When I’m in my wheelchair I need help….I need help with doors and when I drop things… If somebody needs me, I may not have 48-hours to travel.

– Joseph Worley

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We have spoken with our customer’s family to apologize. We are working with our team and our wheelchair assistance vendor at Newark to review what happened and to prevent this from happening again.

– United Airlines

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

They said, ‘Oh don’t worry. When you have wheelchair assistance they stay with them and get them to the gate at the right time and that never happened, they must’ve just left her at the gate.

– Denise Chase

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I was sitting in a wheelchair in hospital having muscle convulsions being told that my kidneys had shut down, it was terrifying to have someone tell you we’re going to have to stop you breathing to keep you alive.

– Liam Steel

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I was not expecting any of this, my mom and I were still trying to fight the insurance, and the old motorized wheelchair was falling apart.

– Meg Moore

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I saw the first human suicide bomb attack but I couldn't figure out what it was, it looked as if something exploded ... I always thought it had to be a wheelchair with lithium batteries.

– Nidhi Chaphekar

Found on CNN
7 years ago

She looked like any adult or older child would in a wheelchair, she was turning around in circles, backing up.

– Bev Wilson

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I had this horrible pain shooting up my back, i had to be carried up the stairs and put into a wheelchair for the rest of my stay.

– Anna Pesce

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I’m deeply concerned about the wounds that you can’t see – TBI or PTS, and so here at the Invictus Games, of course we’re concerned about making sure they have the best prosthesis or the best wheelchair, the best help. These games show that they’re improving. Our focus at the Bush Center is to say: What can we do?

– President George W. Bush

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It is Paul Pierce ankle, which is good news, because when Paul Pierce went down I thought it was Paul Pierce knee, of course, Los Angeles Lakers ' fans thought Los Angeles Lakers ' fans were going to bring out the wheelchair at some point, but Los Angeles Lakers ' fans didn't do that, so that was good.

– Austin Rivers

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Doctors told me I’d be in a wheelchair by the high school graduation. One nurse even said, ‘You’re going to be crippled for the rest of your life.

– Samantha Evans

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I went to Europe, U.S.A., southern Africa, Indonesia and Singapore, in California we went on a wheelchair trek through Yosemite.

– Srin Madipalli

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's very bad taste that it's deemed' artistic' to place a celebrity figure in the position of a disabled person in an editorial sense, however in reality, the fashion industry shuns actual models who in real life, depend on these mobility aids, yet are excluded for this exact reason. Dr. Danielle Sheypuk, a clinical pyschologist and wheelchair-dependant model, agrees.

– Chelsey Jay

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Drivers should look for wheelchair users on roadways and treat them like a slower moving cyclist.

– Rory Cooper

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As his cousin exited the bathroom, which was inside the room, they fired five bullets, one bullet in the head, one in the chest and three in his body, they took Azzam and placed him in the wheelchair they brought the woman in and they exited the room preventing anyone from giving medical aid to the young man lying on the floor.

– Jehad Shawar

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As his brother exited the bathroom, which was inside the room, they fired five bullets, one bullet in the head, one in the chest and three in his body, they took Shalalda and placed him in the wheelchair they brought the woman in and they exited the room preventing anyone from giving medical aid to the young man laid on the floor.

– Jehad Shawar

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The VA's been right up there with disability pay, they pay for the caregiving I get in the mornings. I've got a wheelchair from them, a wheelchair ramp; those range from ($20,000) to $50,000. I have a wheelchair van (and) a special housing grant from the VA that allowed me to get an elevator so I can stay in my home and live in all of it, not just one floor.

– Tim Hoyt

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The great thing is that everything on this wheelchair is automated, if I want to climb the stairs I can just drive up to them, turn around, press one button and all I have to do is control the velocity I want to drive at. The alignment on the stairs, the leveling of the wheelchair driver, is automated and he can control it, he can view the back with a back facing camera, and have a full, safe, driving experience.

– Colleague Miro Voellmy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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