On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:00:37 -0400, "Robert Green"
wrote:

A good friend of mine bought and installed one of the stairway lifts you see
on TV ads in his dad's house. His dad had serious hip problems that an
artificial hip did not make better. So his dad had basically stopped going
upstairs or downstairs. So his son bought the lift. Things actually went
kind of OK for two years until just recently when the chair stopped midpoint
and his dad got out to descend the stair manually. Well, that didn't work
out so well because he ended up at the bottom of the stairs, pretty badly
banged up from a relatively short fall.

I was told that people who have accidents on steps need to work the 12
Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. When they finish them, they are
experienced enough to handle any steps.