The wheelchair user has to climb long stairs because the elevator is faulty: “But the staff’s reaction bothers me more” | outside

Perry was stranded on Thursday evening at Dalston Junction, a London Overground railway station (analogous to the S-line, suburban trains on the NMBS; editor). Since her hotel was nearby, she opted for extreme pain. So lie on your butt and lift yourself up step by step.

Just when Perry was three steps from the top, two employees wearing orange jackets appeared. “They asked me if I didn’t know that the lift had been down for a month. I said that I didn’t live in the area and that I didn’t keep track of which lifts in London were working or not. There was also no warning sign.”

The 29-year-old had been sweating for fifteen minutes at that point. “Then the technician suddenly reported that the elevator was working again. The duo seemed to find it funny, and you can clearly hear them laughing in the video.

For Perry, the incident was clearly too much. “People with disabilities face these kinds of scenes all the time. I can still manage myself, but a lot of people are unable to do that. But what bothers me most is the way I was treated.”

Perry received many expressions of support, but here and there there was also rebuke. The entire Calvary procession has been filmed, can't this person help her? “This is the only way to prosecute this kind of malpractice. By the way, she was a colleague, she doesn't have the strength to drag me up those stairs,” was the clear response.

Perry developed a neurological condition after an accident in December 2017. She has since been paralyzed from the waist down. She often describes the obstacles that come her way on social media.