"I was lying on my back in an east London hospital, sometime in August 2023. I don't know what day it was, exactly; by that point I'd mostly given up caring. My phone rang. I managed to answer, even though I had largely lost the use of my hands. (Luckily, a member of staff had left it lying on my chest.)"
"By this point, I'd started to get my head around the fact I was never going to walk again. Wheelchairs were going to be a big part of my life. But given I wasn't going to be discharged from hospital for at least six months, I figured the local wheelchair service could wait until I was a bit more up for the conversation. I apologised, probably somewhat incoherently, and said I wasn't able to talk right then."
I was lying on my back in an east London hospital in August 2023 after becoming paralysed and losing much use of my hands. Doctors planned to insert a catheter to drain urine. A wheelchair service called while I was unable to speak, and I apologised, asking them to call back. A month later my mother found a letter from AJM Healthcare's Waltham Forest wheelchair service stating the referral had been closed because they had been unsuccessful in contacting me. AJ Mobility Ltd is described as a leading integrated wheelchair service provider for the NHS, serving over 8.1 million people. The closure left my wheelchair access unresolved while I remained in hospital.
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