{"id":27272,"date":"2024-02-01T02:37:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T02:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/disability-student-forced-to-use-loan-to-buy-own-wheelchair\/"},"modified":"2024-02-01T02:37:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T02:37:27","slug":"disability-student-forced-to-use-loan-to-buy-own-wheelchair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/disability-student-forced-to-use-loan-to-buy-own-wheelchair\/","title":{"rendered":"Disability: Student forced to use loan to buy own wheelchair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tina Evans, from the Gwendraeth Valley in Carmarthenshire, is a self-confessed adrenaline junkie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 38-year-old blogger and motivational speaker hand cycled from Cardiff to Paris last year to raise money for adaptive sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was diagnosed with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/ataxia\/symptoms\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Friedreich\u2019s ataxia<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> at 16, a condition that progressively damages the nervous system. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It\u2019s really important to have a suitable chair to live every day like normal, just to get out and about and do the things I want to do,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The disability advocate said the NHS wheelchair she got in 2022 meant she needed help with &#8220;simple things that people take for granted, like going to the toilet independently&#8221; .<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;At the moment, because my chair is not suitable, I\u2019m not always able to do that&#8230; it\u2019s not much to ask for, really.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her friends and family raised \u00a33,000 towards a new electric chair, with Tina paying an extra \u00a32,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said it would have been &#8220;really useful&#8221; to have a personal budget scheme when she was getting quotes for her powered chair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c513r2jy1e7o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tina Evans, from the Gwendraeth Valley in Carmarthenshire, is a self-confessed adrenaline junkie. The 38-year-old blogger and motivational speaker hand cycled from Cardiff to Paris last year to raise money for adaptive sports. She was diagnosed with Friedreich\u2019s ataxia, external at 16, a condition that progressively damages the nervous system. &#8220;It\u2019s really important to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50],"tags":[1191,4405,117,2394,2933,9168],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27274,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27272\/revisions\/27274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}