Day: June 22, 2015

The team from Ramp Builders are starting to build my wooden wheelchair ramp out my back door!  Should be fully completed sometime this week.  I have a doctor’s appointment in two days.  The Ramps Supervisor said they will get the ramp to where it will reach the ground by then.  Will take a little longer until the safety rails are all up, but at least my husband will be able to get me to the ground safely.

When the ramp is completed, there will be a wooden pathway to the back gate.  Will be able to actually get outside and meet my neighbors!  Gardening will be great too.  Looking forward to the future!

Just feel like I should be out there helping them.  Am going to stay inside out of their way and let them do the job they were trained to do.  Have no knowledge of legal safety requirements…

Back on Friday April 17th, 2015 at the suggestion of a human resource person who works for my health insurance company, I contacted the ramps supervisor of the company that helps provides ramps for the disabled to their homes.  They are located all over the country through community ramp building programs.  Here in the St. Paul, MN area a landscaping company known as Tree Trust provides the physical laborers.

I called The Ramps Supervisor and he told me I had to provide him with my social security award letter, 2 years full tax returns and the pay stubs we had received from the past 6 weeks work.  He visited my house on Mon. April 27th.  He inspected the design of our house to determine the most optimal location of the ramp.  I pretty well knew which the easiest way to put one in was, but he was the expert.  Turns out…