It is called a consumer assistance programme, and there is a protection and advocacy agency for disability in every single state, federally funded, and the number for both is printed on page five of the letter you did not finish.

Maya Lin’s chair cost her family nothing and took thirty-four days.

The thing that stood between her and it for eleven months was not poverty.

It was an unopened envelope on a microwave and two parents who each thought the other one had read it.

Two. Never buy anybody a wheelchair.

I say that sentence in rooms and people flinch at it and I say it anyway.

A chair is not a product, it is a prescription with wheels on.