LETTER TO THE EDITOR
My wife has been bedridden for two years and I’m taking care of her at home. Our primary care physician requires that my wife has to appear in the office every three months or she will not renew her medication. This past Friday the 13th, I managed to transfer my wife from the bed into her wheelchair and take her to the car and managed to get her into the car. We are both 83 years old, we managed to get her out of the car back into her wheelchair and into the Doctors office. After the visit with the doctor as I was trying to get my wife out of the wheelchair and into the car she fell down on the pavement. I called 911 requesting help and while I was on the phone a Nurse Practitioner saw what was going on and came and held my wife’s head in her lap until EMS and the Firefighters arrived and took over. A Firefighter picked my wife up and put her into the car. They followed us home and went that extra mile and got her out of the car, into her wheelchair, into the house and put her in bed.
We can’t thank everyone involved enough. I’m sure that there are others here in the area that are also house bound and having to deal with getting to medical appointments and the doctors have no clue what pain and suffering they go through to get to the doctor in order to keep getting their medications renewed.
Robert Blackburn
