US hardware store employee builds life-changing contraption to help boy walk

11/04/2023 05:00 The Guardian

Dave Urban at Lowe’s built parallel bars so that boy, five, who has quadriplegic spastic cerebral palsy could practice walkingA US hardware store employee has warmed hearts across his community and beyond by building a contraption meant to help a young boy with a severe movement disorder learn how to walk, going above the call of duty while on the clock.Dave Urban was working his job at a Lowe’s store in Brookhaven, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, when he spotted the parents of five-year-old William Getty pushing his wheelchair down an aisle displaying plastic water pipes. He asked Getty’s father, Mark, and mother, Jessica, what they were looking for, and they said they wanted some PVC pipes to build some parallel bars on which they could teach their son how to walk, the local television station WTXF reported recently. Continue reading...

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