BRADENTON, FL -- Joyce Morrison is 70-years-old. She has a broken leg, and needs to get home, up on the fourth floor of a senior living condominium complex
But there's a problem: there is only one elevator, and it's broken.
"Now, I am dependent on someone else helping me up," Morrison said.
Four men from Manatee Fire Rescue brought in some special equipment to get Joyce up the stairs.
"It's been very difficult. I don't want to blame anybody, but it just seems, regardless of the age of the elevator, it could have been repaired."
The elevator has been broken for 11 days.
C & S condominium Management Company oversees Joyce's property.
Vice-president Jessica Christianson told ABC Action News, "we have done everything we could possibly do to get this matter remedied as quickly as possible."
The elevator is old, and the company repairing it says the pump is almost 30-years-old, and parts just aren't available.
"The urgency of the need should have been prominent with the management company as well as the elevator company," Joyce says.
The elevator company left a note saying they'll be out with replacement parts Thursday.
That's manageable, but the bumpy 20 minute ride up the stairs isn't.
And Joyce could be in a wheel chair for two more months.
"I hope it doesn't take 6-8 weeks to fix, if it does you might have to let me down with ropes because the stairs are somewhat frightening."
