# Ask the Girl in the Wheelchair

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-girl-in-the-wheelchair/622436>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 19, 2012, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-girl-in-the-wheelchair/622436 "2012-05-19T16:21:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![umkay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/43a26b/32.png) [@umkay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umkay)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-girl-in-the-wheelchair/622436/514 "2012-06-03T05:40:56Z")

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> [@Broomstick](#):
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> Did **umkay** say she’d rather have use of her hands back than being able to walk?

F\*ck hands. If I could just have **one shoulder, one elbow, and one wrist back** , I’d be over the moon. I could feed myself, apply my own makeup, scratch my own freaking nose…

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