My Life in a Wheelchair for One Day

That's a pretty good thing for AB people to do to raise awareness of what it's like being wheelchair bound.

Absolutely a great thing to raise awareness of the difficulties of being in a chair. I don't' think the full impact can be felt during this short duration, but any enlightenment is good. When I was an AB guy working as a firefighter, the thought would cross my mind "if anything should happen to me, I just hope I don't lose the ability to use my arms and hands" Well as fate would have it I lost both arms and legs for awhile' and then regained arms and hands. In retrospect I never realized the depth of what it was to be a para. After 4 years I still have difficulty accepting it, in my able body state I couldn't imagine how much of a change it would be, something I thought I could cope with turned out a little bit more than I could chew. Still think it sucks!

Yeah that's very true cbdives and tbone57, a day in a chair is not enough to know what it's like. Plus there's other factors like reduced muscle strength for quads/paras in certain areas of the body that AB people don't have to worry about so they'll never really feel how much of a challenge it really is for us.

Its actually hard work self wheeling, especially when negotiating inclines and different surfaces etc isnt it Butiki. Im very conscious that im pretty slow on crutches and ive been told that i am but too bad because this is how it is lol
We arent challenged by choice after all lol

Bet she wimped out . . . I know mine would.

It's hard enough being a walking paraplegic! I imagine that that would be so hard to deal with. There is not only the physical but the mental to handle.