Wheelchairs on Television

If I had a hero who was expecting to do physical stuff while in a wheelchair, I'd start with a Quad Rugby chair: http://www.sportaid.com/colours-hammer-quad-rugby-wheelchair.html

Options:

• Offensive wings
  
• Coated handrims
  
• Custom wheelie bar
  
• Picking front end
  
• Cushion
  
• Custom paint

Woo-hoo!!

(Costs more than my car -- lots -- but who's counting?)

That low position would be really helpful ...

Neat link, thanks!

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(Take it, please ... I am so done with this ****.)

I have a friend in Washington State who's been experiencing this recently as a result of a concussion. It's a bit disturbing to think that at any time, her breathing could just stop, and she'd have to think about it to start it up again.

My heart forgets to beat sometimes. (Mostly after I use my asthma rescue inhaler. Marvelous double bind.) Coughing seems to start it again. o.O

But it doesn't do that often. It's the little things, like being able to sit up. Or walk. Or think. Or even stand. It's being able
to think today, or do one errand, instead. :-/

Scary stuff. Hope the problem goes away, soon!

Again, another awesome link. Thank you.

Mind-boggling. Linked, with credits.

On a related note, today I saw a major character in the old TV show Mutant X using a powered scooter, like those Jazzy things.

What I liked about Professor X in the animated X-Men TV show was that he usually had this super-cool chair that wasn't a wheelchair, because it floated around with some kind of anti-gravity or somesuch technology.

I'd like to see a paraplegic character who used a really badass powered chair with a rocket booster, laser cannons, a protective shield, and other tools. Like Iron Man, but a chair instead of a suit.

When I was a kid, one of my characters was a paraplegic scientist who had somehow had his legs removed and replaced with this gizmo thing that allowed him to switch to different sets of artificial legs (the gizmo was connected to his spinal cord higher up), and he had a whole bunch of cool things like an anti-grav machine, robotic spider legs, and other things that turned his disability into a superpower.

For some reason, I was a bit obsessed, as a child, about that kind of thing; I had another character who'd been born blind, but had artificial eyes, and was a surgeon among other things.