How My Wheelchair Helped Me
By Marti Jones
When I looked at other people in wheelchairs I always thought how hard that must be, but I learned that being in wheelchairs is just like having different feet. My wheelchair helped me get around when I was too sick to walk for myself and without wheelchairs I would have been bedridden for two years of my life.
I have a condition called nephrotic syndrome, a kidney disease that causes the body to swell up because it doesn’t process proteins correctly. So, often my legs get so swollen I need wheelchairs to move around freely. Other times, I get so skinny and weak from my medical treatments that I can’t walk. Wheelchairs allow me to go to school, see my friends, work and without one I wouldn’t be able to get around at all.
My wheelchairs change as my body does. Once I had a wheelchair that had a flexible back so I could lay back or sit up while regaining my upper body strength. I’ve had wheelchairs that helped me build up arm strength with wheels that I had to turn myself to move around. I’ve also had wheelchairs that ran on batteries and electric so I just had to push a button to get where I needed to go when I was too weak.
The most important way my wheelchairs have helped me is in making me feel there is hope for people like me. I can’t imagine living in a time when there weren’t wheelchairs. If that time were now, I would be left in a bed with only people coming to visit me. With my wheelchair I can get out and do everything everyone else does, except I have much cooler feet.
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Marti Joneswrites for various websites including, Free article directories and The A to Z of with an interest in health.
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