Sentence examples for old wheelchairs from inspiring English sources

Old Wheelchairs The old-fashioned high wooden-back wheelchairs with heavy steel wheels in the lobby of the Nassau University Medical Center looked like vestiges of a bygone era.

They had an urgent item on the agenda: the uncertain future of their village, an unusual encampment of more than 60 homeless people, living in tents or one-room shacks built of plywood, tarpaulins, plastic sheeting and anything else that could be scavenged and hauled in old wheelchairs and shopping carts.

He used an old wheelchair and added ventilator hoses for arms and a globe for the head.

His mother, Ayesha, says: "The old wheelchair was just so hard to manoeuvre and was so heavy.

She said she was particularly moved to see film footage of Matisse – old, wheelchair-bound, grumpy – at work.

Ms. Ates used to feed herself at the hospital, but she regressed a bit in the group home when the staff replaced her old wheelchair, which had an attachable table.

"From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative," she says, settling into an old wheelchair that constitutes La Brique's most comfortable seat.

He already owned a digital camera and a microphone, and he improvised everything else he needed, using a broomstick to hold the mike, and his grandmother's old wheelchair as a dolly for the camera.

Crawford starred as Blanche Hudson, an old, wheelchair-bound former A-list movie star in conflict with her psychotic sister, in the highly successful psychological thriller What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962).

When the production was first shown on American television, the critic Steve Vineberg wrote: The same year he also appeared in a cameo alongside Gielgud and Richardson in Wagner, with Burton in the title role; his final screen appearance was as an old, wheelchair-bound soldier in Derek Jarman's 1989 film War Requiem.

In this context, here we compared the results of this approach on physical capacity and blood profile of a 43y old wheelchair bound FSHD patient with severe proximal and distal muscular impairment, and moderate restrictive respiratory insufficiency.