Robin Bolduc isn’t the type of person who takes “no” for an answer — particularly when it comes to fixing her husband’s wheelchair. Her husband, Bruce Goguen, 69, is paralyzed
Colorado lawmakers approved a measure that will make it easier for people to fix their power wheelchairs when they wear out or break down, but arcane regulations and manufacturers create high hurdles for nationwide reform.
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Pharmacy clinical manager Dr. Suzanne May holds a syringe of COVID-19 vaccine at North Suburban Medical Center in Thornton, Dec. 17, 2020.
Kenny Maestas works with the Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition and has been collaborating with the state on these issues. Maestas joined the state s COVID-19 health equity panel in April, which was phased out earlier this fall. He s now working with the state on the vaccine rollout plan.
Maestas said he s been in the hospital on a ventilator before, and the possibility that there could have been a ventilator shortage encouraged him to get involved. If there was gonna be a shortage of ventilators in rural Colorado, I wanted to know when and where, said Maestas, who lives in Prowers County. I m a single dad, I got a 16 year-old son that lives with me, and that I gotta take care of for a long, long time yet.