We’re going to have to change ... the last thing you want to do is try to climb up a set of stairs – I was very frustrated.” Tomas began using a wheelchair full-time in 2019.

A wheelchair user who had to crawl up and down the stairs of his rented home for the ... thinking, ‘When is it going to happen?’ It was put off, put off, put off,” he says.

Two contributors discuss what it’s like to use a wheelchair, and report on how local businesses do, and don’t, accommodate those with ambulatory disabilities.