SURVIVING CANCER

  RESOURCES FROM WHEELCHAIR USERS WHO ARE                    CURRENTLY BATTLING OR HAVE BEATEN CANCER

“After the double mastectomy, they said you can’t use your arms for three months. I said, ‘What am I supposed to do as a wheelchair user?’” recalls Paulsen. 

“They said they never had a manual wheelchair user who had a double mastectomy.”

Their lack of experience almost cost Paulsen severely. 

“Because I wasn’t allowed to use my arms, they were trying to see if my mom, who was probably around 70, could transfer me out of the bed into the wheelchair,” she says.

“She dropped me and that was horrid because I still had open wounds.”