Annika M. is 50 years old, has multiple disabilities after a cerebral hemorrhage and lives very cramped in a residential complex. She likes to read, but that is impossible because of the illness. An expensive reader might help.
Annika M. * (50) used to be a passionate reader: everything, and especially crime novels. But since she had a cerebral haemorrhage, she has been living with a number of disabilities, including her eyes. A screen reader could help her. For the model she needed she would have to pay 1000 euros herself. That doesn’t work because she has to get by with basic security.
The life she dreams of is out of reach for Annika M. And that is not due to Corona, because even after Corona she will not be able to go to the theater, museums or concerts and other cultural events. Because it all costs money. Reading would be cheaper, she especially misses that. She was in her mid-twenties when the cerebral hemorrhage completely changed her life. Until then, after completing her commercial training, she had worked in retail and offices.
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Then all of a sudden her whole life collapsed. There was a time when she didn’t want to live anymore, says Annika M. – Speaking, walking: Nothing was taken for granted anymore, she had to learn everything from scratch.
After moving back to live with her mother for a while, she eventually moved to a residential complex for people with disabilities. Your one-room apartment there is very small, with almost nothing in an area of 20 square meters. This also applies to the table she has. It would be occupied by the screen reader that the health insurance company would finance – but she also needs it for eating and many other things. Otherwise she does not get along well with it. A smaller, better device could be the answer. For that she would have to pay 1000 euros herself. “I can’t afford that,” says Annika M. This sentence shapes her entire life, which is even more limited in these Corona times than it is already. All the more she hopes that the vaccine will relax her as quickly as possible. Until then, she tries to be outdoors a lot in her wheelchair.
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