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Man Uses Wheelchair To Shovel Out

Quadriplegic Finds Way To Plow Snow

POSTED: 12:17 pm EST February 14, 2006
UPDATED: 1:31 pm EST February 14, 2006

One man in Montgomery County is easily plowing through this winter mess.

Video: Wheelchair Lets Quadriplegic Plow Snow

Wheelchair Snow Plow
The amazing thing is, Paul Brigidi is doing it all from his wheelchair.

"I said to my wife that I was going to put a plow on my wheelchair and she thought that I was absolutely crazy," Brigidi said.

The wife who once thought he was crazy now helps attach the plow to the wheelchair.

For nine years, Brigidi has been trying to avoid becoming the quadriplegic doctors predicted he would be.

"I did a lot of therapy to try to get back into society as a working individual and use what I had. I knew if I didn't use it I'd lose it," Brigidi said.

So the 32-year-old decided to void the warranty on his motorized chair and had a friend weld a snowplow hitch on the front.

"I've had people stop and just watch and I've had people comment. My neighbors probably think I'm nuts," Brigidi said.

Brigidi was paralyzed in a college baseball game in 1997, but he still has the competitiveness.

"I go out trail riding. I hunt. I've had to call people to come get me out of the woods," Brigidi said.

One of those rescuers is his wife, Jennifer.

"I'm real proud of him. I think that it's real amazing that he can not let something like an injury like this stop him and just continue on," Jennifer Brigidi said.

But it is Paul Brigidi's two young children who make him want to do things like invent snowplow wheelchairs.

"I enjoy life, and I'm going to live it to the fullest," Brigidi said.

Brigidi has his own business called PJBDesigns.


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