Dear Lincoln, I am supporting my dear friend of 50 years whose power wheelchair died Friday night. She is a retired physician who has MS and lives independently in accessible Boston housing. She is remarkable in what she can do with so little physical function. When her chair died she had no choice but to call 911 and waited on a gurney at BIDMC Milton over night until they had a room for her. Pretty terrible conditions. She is a "social admission" without an acute diagnosis. She is getting poor care. With a power chair she is capable of caring for herself better than she is getting cared for in the hospital. She cannot live independently without a power wheelchair.
The ironic thing about this is that insurance pays for a power wheelchair every 5 years. She is supposed to get her new chair at the end of this week, that is, if it's ready. We'll find out if she can get it sooner. When she gets a power wheelchair, she can go home. Her Case Manager reached out to several companies and got no where on this holiday weekend. Does anyone have any connections to a company who can help my friend ASAP? Or do you have access to a loaner power wheelchair? Please email me directly. Thanks in advance. Laura Diamond, MS, PT Diamond Physical Therapy Associates, PC www.diamondphysicaltherapy.com <http://www.diamondphysicaltherapy.comind/>. 617-803-8730 This email and any files transmitted with it may contain PRIVILEGED or CONFIDENTIAL information and may be read or used only by the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient of the email or any of its attachments, please be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, distribution, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email or any attached files is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately purge it and all attachments and notify the sender by reply email or contact the sender at the number listed.
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