Now fully dressed, poor Minty can hobble to the shops to buy essentials, dragging her paralysed, braced legs as she goes. Unfortunately she couldn't afford a wheelchair, so she had to opt for an old pair of polio braces. Also a few people were asking why she has a trach if she is paralysed from the waist down - short answer is, she had a vocal cord issue as a child and has had a trach ever since, allowing her to speak...