Megan

Photo: Megan whizzing along Megan is a lively twelve year old from Edinburgh who loves drawing, holidaying in Florida, socialising with her friends and collecting toy fairies. She has Spina Bifida which means that she has no lower body mobility at all.

Megan’s local NHS wheelchair service provided her with a bulky, heavy manual wheelchair which Megan found extremely difficult to self propel and left her feeling very tired. For Megan this was very frustrating as she couldn’t keep up with her friends and had to rely on other people to push her around.

Her family applied to Whizz-Kidz for a lighter wheelchair that would give Megan much more freedom. Whizz-Kidz provided a lightweight manual wheelchair made of titanium so it was much easier for Megan to manoeuvre and, because it is so light, she can now self propel for much longer periods without getting tired.

Megan’s mum, Debbie, comments:

“Megan loves her new Whizz-Kidz wheelchair as she has so much more freedom and can keep up with her friends. She loves going to the local shopping centre with her friends and now she can do this without any assistance which for any twelve year old is really important.”

Written March 25th, 2007. Posted in Meet the Kidz