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From: Sheila.Fava@f720.n209.z1.fidonet.org (Sheila Fava)
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Subject: Re: sex needs.,
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Date: 25 May 90 04:00:30 GMT
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This is not -exactly- along the lines of your message, Marc:  I called
the wheelchair rental place (Abbey-Foster) and they tell me you will
have to stay a month here in order for medicaid to pick up the rental
tab.  Three-wheeled scooters (Amigo) rent for $100/week, powerchairs
rent $150/week and manual chairs rent for $75/week.

The advice I got was to bring a GEL battery powerchair with you, or
borrow a three-wheeled Amigo or manual chair.  Most tourists and
vacationers here RENT a car instead of trusting that a Taxi-Van will be
available.

Now to the topic of your message:  I am a disABLED competitive swimmer
and at the competitions I have gone to, the disABLED athlete out on
his/her own for (possibly) the first time is woefully prepared for the
social atmosphere found there.  I -do- wish parents or a surogate
parent would discuss frankly the facts of life, the birds'n'bees and
anything else that is needed to be known.  My timezup!  later.

     ---Sheila.

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