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Cláudio needs a specialist standing frame - help us make it happen
Cláudio needs a specialist standing frame that the health system won't fund; the cost is $1,500.
🇧🇷 Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil1,130 views
I live with a rare neuromuscular condition. My occupational therapist at the Ribeirão Preto Rehabilitation Centre has assessed me and recommended a specialist standing frame. The public scheme doesn't cover it, and the quote from the supplier is $1,500.
My current equipment is 12 years old and keeps breaking, which has confined me to home for 8 weeks.
With the right equipment I could go to school independently. It would change my everyday life and my ability to work from home.
We've applied to two charities already and received small contributions; this campaign covers the rest.
Funds go toward the equipment, delivery, fitting and a year of servicing.
Where the $1,500 goes:
• specialist standing frame: $1,300
• Fitting and training sessions: $85
• Delivery and set-up: $65
• First-year servicing plan: $50
Please ask me anything in the questions section. I'll answer honestly and quickly.
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thanks for sharing this. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Wish I lived closer to Springfield so I could bring a meal. Thinking of Ribeirão Preto
Is there anything that isn't money that would help Cláudio?
Sharing the link is the biggest thing. And if you know anything about specialist standing frame, advice is welcome too. Thanks for looking so closely.
Thinking of you, Cláudio. Gave what I could, wish it was more. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Thinking of Ribeirão Preto.
Sending love. Hope you get there. I went through something like this 13 years ago and strangers helped me out. Blessings