ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the mental, emotional and physical effect of being in a wheelchair. It discusses the physiotherapy and the author's struggle to regain their feet and the eventual triumph. He was still too weak from his coma and the damage to his vestibular system, and he lacked the muscle because of bedridden-resultant atrophy to make the final transition to standing. It became abundantly clear why he needed the wheelchair. As his head had enough traumas, he was keen to take it very cautiously to avoid banging it again. Even though he was in a wheelchair, he still did not have freedom of movement. On his first visit to the outside community, being wheeled down the nearby high street by his physiotherapist, it was like entering a new world. With the goal of leaving the wheelchair in mind, his physiotherapist was switched to a fiery but sadistic New Zealander.
