On 1/3/2013 10:05 PM, ViolinGoddess wrote:
>
> Hi,
> My name is Meghan and I've been a silent member for a few years now.
> But my life has come to a breaking point in which my epilepsy has a
> very real and very paralyzing hand in. In addition to my epilepsy, I
> also have multiple anxiety disorders that all seem to be based in
> transportation. All my life I've lived without the ability to have my
> own independent means of transportation. The breaking point I find
> myself at now, @ the age of 35 is the desperate need for this. Online
>
> I've discovered Electric mopeds that are "bike lane legal", only go
> 30-35mph, and only 60 miles on one charge. But they recharge in around
> 3hrs, and require no gas or drivers license to drive. Brand new, the
> cost around $1,500 - $2,000, and some factories take payments of under
> $100 monthly.
>
> This would be my salvation, except that I live in the Pacific
> Northwest, were rain, wind and cold are a very big part of our yearly
> climate. Has anyone out there heard of other options that are open to
> epileptics that cannot have a drivers license? Preferably something
> with a roof or some sort and electric instead of gas powered. I'm on
> SSI and cannot afford the high prices of gas. I have thought about
> potentially asking around for Electric golf carts. They often have not
> only roofs, but plastic zippered coverings to keep the rain and wind
> from all sides. Plus room for a passenger, and back rack for groceries
> or anything else you may need to carry with you.
>
> PLEASE SOMEONE GET BACK TO ME ABOUT THIS!?! Anything that you know,
> have heard, or can send me in a direction to finally get my freedom
> back will deserve my eternal gratitude! This issue is such a long and
> painful story, I don't want to burden the group with it. But I've
> spent the last 14yrs too afraid to leave my home, locked in this
> stagnant exsistence. I don't want to sound dramatic, but anything
> anyone can do to help me find my way out, will literally have saved my
> life.
>
> Thank you all for reading my post.
>
> Most Sincerely Yours;
> Meghan E Doty
> Violin Goddess
>
Meghan, I indirectly know what you are feeling. I don't drive, not
because of medical problems keeping me from driving, but feeling safer,
not being in a car. A perfect example is my own mother. Every time I am
in her car, she does something reckless. We were in a parking garage
arriving for my dental appointment, when she made a turn to sharply.
Because her particular model of Volvo station wagon being low to the
ground, she scraped the bottom of the car on a concrete walkway. It is
things like that, which are why, I do not like riding in her car.
My preferred form of transportation is my (Tour de France-style)racing
bike. I don't ride in bike lanes because I have seen too many
motorists' not paying attention when a cyclist was in a bike lane.
Because of that experience, I 'take the lane', because I am legally
allowed to do that. My bike is not my complete salvation. But like
you, I would have the same problem with the rain in the PNW.
I too feel like I live a stagnant life. I have no friends other than at
the bike shop. I don't trust people to not use my health problems
against me. As has been done so many times in the past. I was accused
of starting a fire in a house, that I was living in with five other
people. I was accused of almost getting a roommate fired from her job.
I was accused by my (ex)wife n' her parents' of causing all the problems
in our marriage.
I will get off my soapbox now.
The kind of golf cart I am sort of thinking of, in your case, would be
something like the 'Pope mobile', that the Pope travels in, on his
tours. It basically, is a golf cart enclosed in glass.
Christopher
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