As Ella grows older her needs change, mature, and expand. She’s at an age where she wants desperately to explore her world yet access to that world is hindered by SMA. Her power wheelchair gets her around most places but also confines her to certain places. She very rarely, if ever, goes to a friend’s house to play because of her power wheelchair. Just getting it into a house can be an ordeal. Even when friends come over to our house they have to stay on the first floor. Ella has a small manual wheelchair but she has outgrown it and she also cannot move it over carpeted areas (like our basement).  Just recently we discovered a lightweight, collapsible manual wheelchair called the "Zippee Zone" with a separate device with a power wheel that can attach to the back of the wheelchair to move the wheelchair along (called a “Smart Drive”). Unfortunately, insurance will not help pay for this chair, as they pay for her power wheelchair. If we purchased this manual wheelchair and dev...