Category Archives: Lightweight Wheelchairs

  A man was locked up and accused of robbing a wheelchair-bound teenager in his front yard. “I was shocked,” Deandray Hall said. “I was like what’s going on?:” Hall was caught off guard and thought he was going to die. The 17-year-old lives life in a wheelchair every day and said he was having […]

The family of a woman killed in a hit-and-run crash early Sunday morning is begging the driver who hit her to come forward. The incident took place on northwest 3rd avenue and 54th street about 2:30 a.m. The victim has been identified as Takesha Shawanna Hayes, 39. Hayes’ family says she suffered from multiple sclerosis […]

A newborn died after medics failed to notice he had already been born. The baby boy was dragged across the floor by his own umbilical cord while the mother was rushed for surgery. Shang Shao was only seven months pregnant when her water broke. The 45-year old was already in labour when she was immediately […]

  A 31-year-old woman is accused of using salt to poison an 8-year-old boy under her care. Tiffany Johnson was taken into custody Monday for allegedly putting large amounts of salt into the boy’s gastric tube. The boy, who is in a wheelchair and unable to care for himself, suffered from numerous ailments that resulted […]

Even though grandparents might have regrets about activities they can no longer do with their grandchildren due to their disabilities, they can provide a valuable learning opportunity to show their grandchildren how to deal with people with disabilities. The relationship between handicapped grandparents and their grandkids is influenced by the beginning of the impairment. Some […]

Bus companies are not required by law to have a policy to force parents with buggies to make way for wheelchair users in designated bays on buses, the Court of Appeal has ruled. The “proper remedy” for wheelchair users to get improvements in such cases is to ask Parliament, three judges ruled. The judges had […]

Mohammad Ouyoun, 21, was trying to get to Union Station to take a Metra train home to Northbrook last year when he came across a problem. Ouyoun said he was at the Merchandise Mart Brown Line stop in River North and asked the CTA customer service agent which stop was closest to Union Station. Taking […]

Sgt. Joe Johnson, who served in Afghanistan, pulled off a wedding surprise his wife, Michelle, will never forget. He joined her for their first dance without a wheelchair! According to WXIN, Joe, 27, suffered a spinal cord injury in a motorcycle accident shortly after returning from overseas. He suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after serving in […]

After Turbo, the chihuahua born without front legs, captured the Internet’s heart over the summer, he caught the attention of Mark Deadrick, who makes his living designing rocket parts. Deadrick learned about Turbo from Ashley Looper, a veterinary tech who took him in after he was abandoned at four weeks old. At the time, Turbo was […]

There are many reasons not to panic about Ebola. Medical experts have declared the chance of a mass outbreak in the US is negligible, often vastly overstated by politicians and media sensationalism. But if you work at one of the international airports charged with conducting the government’s new Ebola screening program, while you may not have reason […]