Zoomer v. Invacare, FDX-MCG, Front-Wheel Drive, Center of Gravity.
Many individuals with scooters, electric wheelchairs, and the like adorn their vehicles with American flags, safety flags, and the like. I have not motorized the American flag, although I seek the power of protection a bright orange safety flag is promoted as affording me.
Some people are branded as Jazzy. I have not been so bestowed. Were I branded, I would be known as FDX-MCG, or front-wheel drive, center of gravity. While the balance center of gravity promises, and the power front-wheel drive promises, FDX-MCG or center of gravity is hardly intuitive, much less catchy.
Wheelchair-bound, or wheelchair-confined is hardly the way I pray that I will proceed through my life.
If it be so, that is how I will go. Yet, for now, I vow to take a different road--the less traveled road--toward adventure.
Adventure--lived fully--must flow from A to Z. If I am so to travel the road of Adventure, my companion must be Zoomer.
I hate to be a woman of delusion. Saying I use an electric wheelchair still stings a bit. Say it if I must, I will do. Yet, somehow, Zoomer removes the stinger, and allows me adventure and does bind or confine me to a wheelchair, even if it be mine. Zoomer is a power-filled princess, while Front-wheel Drive, Center of Gravity is a frightening dictator.
For now, Zoomer and I shall travel down the road less traveled toward whatever unknown adventure awaits. We shall travel together, yet, still not alone. In the spirit of three--Robert Frost, John Hockenberry, and John Steinbeck we shall travel. Travels with Charley: In Search of America I must read.
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