The Wheel Deal by JAK 's guest mom blogger from Kenosha, Wendy Woods It was the morning of August 2009, and my 2 1/2 year old son and I were waiting for his physical therapist and the medical equipment company. My son was going to try out a powered wheelchair for the first time. Yes, I said powered wheelchair. I was dreading this day and here it was. READ MORE... I've known for a while that my son was going to have difficulty walking on his own but I had always hoped and prayed that with a lot of physical therapy he would eventually walk. I remembered waking up and thinking that I had failed him somehow. That I was letting him down. If only he had been diagnosed earlier and started physical therapy earlier, we wouldn't be here waiting for a powered wheelchair trial. What I thought was going to be the worst day of my life turned out to be the best. When Nicholas got in the chair, he grabbed the joystick and moved about a foot, his face lit up. He couldn't believe he move...