Samantha Becker
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My 14 yo brother has been in an elecetric wheelchair for the last 4 years due his muscular dystrophy. He can no longer stand even with leaning against someone. We must transfer him to be and toilet because of this.
This will be a very hard trip for him because he would go to Disney and love everything up till he was 10. Now it will be very sad for him not being able to go on most of rides. Hopefully there will be some that he can go on, we will have to transfer him. It is not easy though like picking up a 10 yo who ways diddly. He is 200 lbs of dead weight (unfortunately sterroids have made him gain a ton
but it will take 2-3 adults to try and get him lifted to a manual wheel chair. Question is this. It will probably be easier if we can use a slide board to get him to manual wheelchair. Do the Disney wheelchairs have the arm that lifts up? This is the only way we could use one. (Also if anybody has had experience with this from Universal please let me know)
Where are the manual wheelchairs, in the ride itself or outside the ride? What do you do with your electric wheelchair in the meantime.
Are there rides that you can go right on with electric wheelchair? It is pretty wide. Heloves Pirates and Haunted mansion
This will be a very hard trip for him because he would go to Disney and love everything up till he was 10. Now it will be very sad for him not being able to go on most of rides. Hopefully there will be some that he can go on, we will have to transfer him. It is not easy though like picking up a 10 yo who ways diddly. He is 200 lbs of dead weight (unfortunately sterroids have made him gain a ton

Where are the manual wheelchairs, in the ride itself or outside the ride? What do you do with your electric wheelchair in the meantime.
Are there rides that you can go right on with electric wheelchair? It is pretty wide. Heloves Pirates and Haunted mansion
