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I have a dibilitating spinal condition, which continues to get worse. I can walk from the livingroom to the bathroom, with pain and maybe a fall. I am very unstable. But trying to go further than my house is a problem. So I bought a nice 4 wheel scooter on my own and it gets me all over the neighborhood and park. But that is just from my house. I have nothing to transport it with.
Well, now one of my many doctors feels I should be in a motorized wheelchair instead of the scooter, when out of the house. That would be run through insurance and I would pay the difference to the tune of around $1k or so.
What would you prefer to transport and use when out of the house, maybe at a restaurant or on a boardwalk or a flee market or anything like that? Keep in mind that both choices will recline. So whatever one I pick to transport, I have to buy a receiving hitch and a transport platform....for a Nissan Altima. I was going to get one for the truck, but I think that might be going away not too far down the road.
Thoughts on which way to go for practical use and comfort.
Thx much. I just cannot make up my mind on which one to use away from home, as I will have both at home fairly soon.
Last edited by The Villages Guy; 10-28-2014 at 07:31 PM..
Better get the details on what kind of a hitch you can put on a Nissan Altima. If I remember correctly, the transport platform for a motorized wheelchair requires a large, heavy vehicle, like a van or a full-sized SUV. Before you buy anything, make sure your vehicle can support it.
Better get the details on what kind of a hitch you can put on a Nissan Altima. If I remember correctly, the transport platform for a motorized wheelchair requires a large, heavy vehicle, like a van or a full-sized SUV. Before you buy anything, make sure your vehicle can support it.
That's why I would love to keep the Nissan Frontier, but that is a stick shift and I'm getting to the point where that simply is not an option. My doc doesn't want me to drive anything at all.
We would go with the manual flip down platform, not a motorized one.
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