Hi Dew!

I feel your frustration of your immobility and it's terrible effect on your life!
I have been going through the same struggle for a long time! It is coincidental that you write about your plight, as I just posted a new thread about a mobility scooter that was finally authorized by W.C.

Dew, please don't accept the determination by your P.M. doctor that you would become too dependent on a wheel chair or scooter!! My pain management doc had the same thoughts, but my foot doctor really new the reality of my situation....

Please explain to your pain doc that it is essential that you have some independence and the ability to get around!!! If there were an emergency and you had to go a distance, you wouldn't be able to without a wheel chair or scooter! ..and the strain and pain on your legs, and system in general when you do try to walk, is damaging!!! ....not to mention the impact on your emotional well-being and quality of life!

Dew, please continue to ask for a wheel chair or preferably a scooter.
If you are able, you might consider buying one on your own, and then later having W.C. compensate you..
I am thinking of you and know the frustration you are going through!
Hope4thebest