GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. (GOSY)

[XenaLives]

How many people will not be able to live on their own because Wallace and MacLeod want to see Martin Spencer's dream in ruins?

I like to be able to run my house and live on my own independently or with my girlfriend. I don't want to rely on her or anyone else. I do NOT like being held back or prevented from having a normal easy life by the system or by lack of some essential equipment. With it a GOOD PowerChair I am able. Without it I cannot function EFFECTIVELY. Every little thing I do is a fight. E.G. Dog walking. Grass cutting. Carrying a coffee from the kitchen to the PC... You name it and its much more awkward in a manual chair.

Contrary to popular belief, if you are paraplegic you actually do NEED a good powerchair if you are to have any real "quality" of life. This is based on 12 years living in the real world WITH a Powerchair and a previous few without one and struggling!!!

The difference is absolutely night and day. If its broken or unusable I am screwed! I have have to go back to my manual chair. Its like having your legs cut off. Any active life just stops. Everything becomes slower and more difficult or impossible to do. Manual chairs really are THAT restrictive. Most users don't ever "see it" though because they are used to it and just accept its problems as normal.

You can manage without a good powerchair obviously, but its immensely difficult and slow and often requires help from others to do countless things. Why should you just "manage" to get bye? Manual chairs hinder everything you do. Right now I am building a PC. I have been carrying boxes, cases, tool boxes, half built stuff back and forth to the bin outside and to my bench, and from my car up and down ramps and through doorways. All of it held with one hand as I drive with the other. Its too big, too hard to do this stuff in a manual chair. If its even possible.

http://www.wheelchairdriver.com/power-or-manual-wheelchair.htm