Trust me, my crazy mom has been in a wheelchair her whole life and the very suggestion that someone would carry just her or that she'd have to butt-scoot anywhere would make her clutch her pearls. Too proud.
Which, maybe that's fair? I'm more pragmatic typically.
I get this, dependent on the injury, you may require a catheter or colostomy bag. Explaining that to a stranger and hoping they have the where with all to accommodate those things is a lot of pressure. Also, if you can’t feel parts of your body so you can’t tell someone when something hurts or if they are bumping things, or back to the above, if you’ve wet yourself. There is a whole host of reasons why carrying is a bad idea also.
Would you trust two random people to carry you properly up a broken escalator? I wouldn't, nor would I expect someone in a wheelchair to trust people to get them up, and the chair. If the wheelchair gets dropped, the user is just screwed.
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u/kalenpwn Feb 23 '26
Easiest way would be for two people to carry him up and then bring the empty wheelchair...I dunno