Car Rentals

When our parents died when we were teenagers, I knew I’d have to grow up fast and help take care of my sister, Jess. She is a quadriplegic and has been using a wheelchair since her birth. Since i was her elder brother, I always had to care for her, but i never took it as chore since the reality is that she also cared for me. When i finally acquired my licence, jess was too happy. She said she’d never been anywhere seeing as how she was stuck in that chair, and now she wanted to see the world. I never felt bad with my little sister coming along with me most of the places i visited. But one thing really bothered me and that was loading and unloading that massive wheelchair of hers. It was one of those motorized things and must have weighed around a hundred pounds. Either that or I’m just weak. But ofcourse i couldn’t tell any thing to her. But I started looking into buying a wheelchair lift right away.

Shopping for a wheelchair lift is like shopping for anything else—you wouldn’t believe how many different models they have! There are basically two type ofwheelchair lifts that can be used for you vehicle—an internal wheelchair lift and an external one. An internal wheelchair lift is secured inside the trunk of your vehicle and it slowly hoists the chair into your trunk, while the external models attach to the hitch of your car or truck and lift the chair into the trunk. I opted to go with the internal wheelchair lift because of the storage issues.

Jess smiled when she saw her new lift. It turns out she had also been worried about me loading her wheelchair in and out of the van for quite some time.

“Thats really nice,” I blurted. But you need not worry about me.”

“I wasn’t,” she said, and smiled. “I thought you were going to drop my chair.”

We both laughed for a long time. Then we got in the car and went out for a bite to eat. Since we have acquired this new wheelchair lift ,loading and unloading her chair requires almost no effort – almost as simple as operating the stair lift at home. I can’t believe I spent all that time struggling with it in the past. But hey, that’s what big brothers are for.