ANDREW SPENCER
Hello, my name is Andrew Spencer. I am twenty-five years old and I have a disability. I am in a wheelchair and I talk through a Dyna Vox. I live at home with my mom and dad.
I have a Hoyer Lift and I need it to help me get out of bed in the morning. I also have a walker. We have a wheelchair ramp so that I can get my wheelchair in and out of the house by myself. This gives me the freedom to go outside when I want.
Things that come easy for people without disabilities take a lot of extra planning and organization on my part, even something as simple as planning to go to a movie. I thought I planned it to work like a dream but it turned out to be a bad dream.
The trip to the movie went from bad to worse. The day we planned to see the movie, we went on the computer to get the time that the movie started. We booked the bus, which had to be booked two days in advance, to come at 12 o'clock. The same time that we booked the bus to take us to the movie, we also booked it to pick us up at 3 p.m.
That is where things started to get worse.
The movie did not finish at 3 p.m. and so the bus had come and gone. Needless to say, we did not catch the bus. We got angry and phoned the bus company to see when we could get the bus. The woman at the bus company told Lynn (my worker) that she could get a bus to us at 7 p.m.