Get Scott Home To His Girls

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Scott McQuade a keen runner, a black belt in karate, F1 enthusiast, average table tennis player and IT specialist lived in Bishopton with his wife, Fiona and 2 daughters, Sophie and Lucy who are 12 and 9 years old - right up until 24th December 2022.

April 2024 - Scott is a quad amputee after facing an unimaginable life event.

Scott and the girls are going through hell each day being forced to live apart as the family have been told they are ineligible for funding and Scott is 'not a priority'.

This page is to raise the funds to help with the required adaptations for the family home in Bishopton and get Scott back living with his girls!

** The required adaptations to convert the garage into a bedroom and the downstairs bathroom into a wet room was estimated at £20,000 according to the Herald article however many donators have got in touch with their recent experiences and the target has been updated **

In December 2022, Scott had been decorating his mother-in-laws home and noticed a tiny cut on his finger.

On Christmas Eve he admitted himself to A&E at the Royal Alexandra Hospital feeling ill with a suspected infection in his finger.

Later on that day, Scott was in intensive care and Fiona was told that the medics did not expect him to survive to see Christmas Day.

Tests revealed that Scott had Strep A - a bacterial infection - which had triggered sepsis, where the body's immune system attacks its own tissues and organs - all from a tiny cut on his finger. Doctors bombarded Scott with intravenous antibiotics as he went into multi-organ failure.

He nearly died several times over the following weeks and, in February 2023, surgeons had to remove both his legs below the knee, his left forearm, and his right hand.

Fiona throughout this unfortunate turn of events was visiting her husband in ICU, being a mother and working a full-time job - Fiona was understandably signed off work due to stress and only returned to work in August 2023.

Scott, now a quad amputee, would spend the next 5 months in a hospital bed beginning his road to recovery with round the clock care and many of his friends, family and colleagues visiting. Below is a photo of some friends and work colleagues surprising Scott on one of his first visits out of the hospital (June '23)

After going from hospital to hospital - Scott was released August 2023 with an elecitric wheelchair for mobility into the family home which had no adaptations for Scotts phyiscal disabilities - no downstairs bedroom or wheelchair accessible bathroom.

Scott then suffered a trauma-related breakdown after only lasting 5 days at the family home (when he was discharged from hospital in August 2023), and was admitted to Leverndale psychiatric hospital, and then Dykebar mental health facility in Paisley.

Following a string of wound infections which mean he is so far unable to be fitted for prosthetic limbs, Scott was re-admitted to the RAH and from there into Montrose care home in Paisley.

Scott is currently in Montrose care home and now its closing. He has been offered a flat which he would need to pay for rent, flooring and white goods.

The family have been told they are ineligible for funding and Scott is 'not a priority' because he could just 'live in the living room' and wash in the sink in the downstairs toilet with carers coming in four times a day.

Sadly the familys savings were exhausted during the last 16 months trying to cope with everything that has happened.

It has been proposed to convert the garage into a bedroom and creating a wet room downstairs for Scott in the family home and this is what we hope to help with on this page!

Finding Your Feet - a charity for amputees set up by sepsis survivor Corinne Hutton - has been and will always help Scott, through a range of sporting initiatives and social inclusion projects designed to positively affect both physical and mental wellbeing.