mobility
WHEELS IN MOTION
‘ We cry a lot’: How this former NY Jets cheerleader changes the lives of disabled people and their families
WRITTENBY MICHELLE FALKENSTEIN PORTRAIT BY NELSON DIAZ, NYLAGRAYPHOTOGRAPHY
In 2006, Nicole Bryson was working at the reception desk at FTMobility, a wheelchair vehicle and mobility equipment specialist in Saddle Brook, when aman came in to inquire about purchasing avehicle. He explained that his wife had suffered atraumatic brain injury ayear earlier and had just been released from arehab facility. Now she was wheelchair-bound, and her husband needed away to take her to therapy appointments. Bryson, arelatively recent hire, showed the man amodified Toyota van.
“ I tried to guide him the best way Icould,” Bryson says. The man was sold.
Afew weeks later, when he came back to pick up his license plates, hetold Bryson( with tears in his eyes) that because of the van, he and his wife had been able to eat at their favorite restaurant, something he never thought they would do again.
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