Mobility
For a very long time my wife and I tried to convince my mother to let us get a wheel chair for her. She has been ill for a very long time. She is on oxygen 24/7 and cannot walk more than about twenty feet without having to stop and catch her breath. My wife used to take her to run errands when we lived near her (we moved away a while ago) and she would tell me how hard it was for my mother to run the errands, and how many stores did not have scooters or wheel chairs available for their customers. And then there have been times we wanted to take her to a show of some kind and there were no wheel chairs available there, either.
Sometimes we managed to borrow a wheelchair from a local hospital that my sister worked at to take my mother to a show, but those were not the kind that could easily fit into a car trunk and that was a pain in the neck! Finally my mother decided to look into buying one of those electric scooters, and we are all very pleased with how that has increased her ability to get around. Her insurance paid for it all, and now she can go just about anywhere she wants to go!
