TOLEDO, OH (WTOL) - A WTOL 11 viewer needs a wheelchair after an accident but can't properly get around his home after it took a medical supply company weeks to get him a new one after his old one broke, so he got in touch with Call 11 for Action.
William McCallister was in a hit-and-run motorcycle accident seven years ago which causes him to still need a wheelchair today.
Right before Thanksgiving, McCallister had skin graft surgery on his foot, something he has had done many times since the accident, and will have to continue for the foreseeable future.
Not long after his most recent surgery, his original wheelchair suddenly broke, almost throwing him to the ground.
He knew he was supposed to be taking it easy, but without an immediate replacement he was forced to crawl around his own home.
McCallister says took Apria, a medical supply company, three weeks to replace the chair.
That chair only arrived after he reached out to his congresswoman, Marcy Kaptur of Toledo.
The trouble McCallister is facing now is the new wheelchair is wider than the old one and can't make it through the doorways in his home. That means in order to even go to the bathroom, he must risk further injury.
"Medicaid got me a chair that I can't use, but in the living room and the dining room. And then I have to get on the walker with this boot on with skin grafts on my foot. So you want to tear the skin grafts off of my foot that I just had put on to walk to the bathroom? This company is something else. I don't understand how they get away with it," said McCallister.
McCallister claims Apria is purposely making him suffer for going through alternate channels to get results.
"The original chair is twenty inches on the inside from arm to arm. This one's twenty-two and then you've got your hand grips out here," said McCallister. "I can't use the hand grips going through any door in this house and I told him that from the second he d ropped it off."
The paperwork he signed when the chair was d ropped off is illegible. The ink, which is a very light gray, is printed on pink paper.
All that can be made out is McCallister's signature.
McCallister said that he's failed to get a straight answer from them despite calling and waiting on hold daily since his original request was made back in November.
On December 29th, Apria Healthcare shared the following statement with WTOL:
