Broken elevator prevents disabled woman living on top floor from access to outside

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — A Chesapeake woman in a wheelchair has been stuck on the top floor of a four-story hotel for more than a month due to a malfunctioning elevator.

The Pattons are staying on the top floor of the four-story Woodspring Suites Extended Stay hotel, which hasn’t had a working elevator since April 10, and is the last time Joy Patton was outside because she is in a wheelchair and can’t make it to the ground floor.

Every day since then, her husband, Matt Patton, walks up and down the stairs “five to six times” a day to get on his bike to run errands while his wife, Joy, remains upstairs…

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