NEW YORK (PIX11) – For 34-year-old Nyree Stevens and the home health aides who help her carry her paralyzed body multiple times a day, every single day is an exercise in patience – and delicate maneuvering she can get around her public housing unit in the Bronx. “For me to get in and out of my wheelchair, i’m not able to use my equipment because the room is too small, and also for the bathroom, in order to get in and out the shower, i have to be lifted over a piece that’s in front of the shower. And I told them about it. Because I could either tip out the chair from them lifting me up, instead of me having a roll-in shower,” Stevens said.
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Home health aide Dee Oldacre also considers herself Nyree’s dear friend. “It’s a lot of work. The space is very limited, so it’s a struggle,” said Old Acre. Nyree did not choose this life. “In 2009, I was the victim of gun violence,” said Stevens. Her paralysis, from the shoulders down, is the result of…..