Help Amanda maintain her independence.

I’m a wheelchair user with a job. I tried to get a manual assist device for my chair, to help me take care of my errands and responsibilities more efficiently while preventing wear and tear on my body. The insurance I only have BECAUSE I have a job, only pays for things that are labeled for “in home use”. HOWEVER, I could be the exact same person with the exact same needs without a job, and medicaid would pay for the manual assist, because they pay for things that will help me “access my community”. So apparently, for insurance to pay for things, you have to decide if you are an indoor cripple or an outdoor cripple. But you certainly canNOT be a contributing member of society who has a home to keep AND groceries to buy and banking to be done and errands to run, etc. NOPE. Rules like this are a symptom of archaic attitudes thrown back from a time when people with disabilities were kept at home, if not institutionalized. I need this device to prolong what mobility/functionality I have for as long as possible. I want to be productive, and an asset to my community. I want to be more efficient and competitive in the workplace. I need help, because life is short, and I still have a lot to do.

This is a video of the device I’ve got my eye on. There are many videos of users sharing how they use this device and what it does for them. I hope you’ll check some of them out.

No matter if you can donate or not, I hope you will share this information far and wide, not just to help me, but to spread awareness of everything that brought me to this point.

Thank you so much!

Amanda Frazier Timpson