MERIDEN, Conn., July 11 (UPI) -- A Texas mother and quadruple amputee says she and her family were kicked out of a hotel in Connecticut because of her disability.
Katy Hayes, 45, who had both of her arms and legs amputated in 2010 to save her life from a flesh-eating infection said the incident at the Executive Inn & Conference Center in Meriden, Conn., happened on July 3, the Boston Herald reported.
Hayes, her husband, Al, and their three children, have been living in Boston since September while she awaits a double arm transplant -- the first to be performed in the United States. The Texas family was in Connecticut to visit friends for the Fourth of July.
However, shortly after they checked in to their hotel, they were asked to leave, Katy Haynes told the Herald Wednesday.
"Basically we were told, 'We're under new management and our management doesn't feel comfortable with your wife's disability and we don't want your wife to stay in our hotel.' Usually people are more politically correct and they'll skirt around it and just shove us aside," Hayes said.
"These people openly said they were not comfortable with my disability," she said. "It's humiliating. When you're treated so coldly like that, you feel like you shouldn't exist."
However, hotel general manager Adnan Khan said the family chose to leave on their own.
"We tried to accommodate him as much as possible, but he was not happy in the end," said Khan about his interaction with Al Hayes. "He was complaining so much about his wife being disabled about this and that, so I decided to move him to an [Americans with Disabilities Act] compliant room so I wouldn't get in trouble with the law."
Then, when Al Hayes complained about a broken television in their room, Khan said he told the family he didn't have a maintenance worker on site, but offered to switch their rooms again. Instead, the family chose to leave, Khan said.
