A Summerville woman who is a regular at the Expanding the Table
dinner is disabled and is wheelchair bound.
She uses her motorized chair to get around, socialize and shop outside
of her apartment. However, her
wheelchair is covered by Medicare for indoor use only and the batteries get a more severe workout from the repeated drain and recharges with the outside use. Medicare will only cover battery replacement once
per year. She recently had problems with
the batteries which were found to be in need of replacement and her battery
charger was also not working properly.
She was 4 months early on the insurance coverage to replace the
batteries and was currently using a manual chair which she struggled with not
having the upper body strength. A
volunteer from ETT was approach for assistance who contacted Change for a
Dollar. We spoke with the wheelchair servicing
company and arranged to have her batteries replaced so she could start using
her motorized chair again.
Wheelchair batteries replacement - $473.70
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