Fwd: [QUAD-L] getting into a non-accessible house. should I try a manual wheelchair?

forwarded message: > Resent-From: quad-list@eskimo.com > From: Danny Hearn > Date: January 30, 2015 at 3:00:04 PM EST > To: Dave Krehbiel , 'Quad-List' > > Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] getting into a non-accessible house. should I try a > manual wheelchair? > Reply-To: Da

Re: [QUAD-L] getting into a non-accessible house. should I try a manual wheelchair?

I have done both ways...In a manual chair it is easy for a person to get you up or down stairs, they just have to tilt the chair back with the person in it facing away from the steps and simply lift up or down one step at a time--when they have you tilted back it is pretty easy just like moving

[QUAD-L] getting into a non-accessible house. should I try a manual wheelchair?

I have been invited to a family event, but the houses not wheelchair accessible. The person hosting the party has offered to rent or build a ramp, but I am wondering if it would be simpler and easier and safer to use a standard nonpowered wheelchair. There are three or four concrete steps leadi