We found out about a nonprofit company here in Denver called Kids Mobility Network and what an amazing thing they do for special needs children with mobility issues. The company was started by parent's of a special needs daughter who didn't know what to do with the equipment their daughter outgrew. They take in donated equipment for mobility and refurbish it and re give it to other children. Our insurance would have taken months to order a new chair and would have only covered one item, so we filled out an application for a special wish list of items for Braydon. Braydon was in need of a new wheelchair(his previous one was supposed to last him 4-5 years and he had it for three) and we live in a three level house and wanted him to have a hi-lo seat(you can raise this to table height and lower it to the ground) on our main level so he could watch TV and play all in the same seat. In about 14 days they called us and said they had both available for us! We went down there where they fitted him to the brand new wheelchair(it still had the manufacturer's tags on it) and a slightly used hi-lo. If I could only describe the excitement and smile Braydon had on his face when we tried him out in each new seat! We donated his old wheelchair and another walker that he had outgrown. They only ask for a suggested donation on each item and gave us an invoice on the price each one would have cost us brand new. Let me tell the donation price we gave was one tenth the price each item cost. They are an amazing group of people!
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