Update: I am currently homeless and living out of my car. Any sort of assistance would be most welcome. I still have a minimum of months to get a disability decision. I have checked the local and state assistance organizations. Apparently there is no housing and shelters are not an option due to multiple disabilities. Tennessee Adult Protective Services told me on Monday that no shelter will accept me due to my disability. My combination of being an amputee and an ostomate are too much for them to accept. Please pray for me and any assistance is welcome. God is good and these struggles will end eventually. May God bless you all.

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Hello all, my name is Nicholas Pruitt. I have a complex medical history: Colorectal Cancer, obesity/weight loss, Sarcoidosis, Pacemaker/Bradycardia and now an Amputation. After many months of struggle, illness and believing I had lymphoma (Cancer Round 2) from last August to this April. This is when I finally received a diagnosis of Sarcoidosis and a biopsy of my spleen came back cancer free. I was on an unpaid medical leave but have since ended my twenty-four year tenure with West Tennessee Healthcare. Being underemployed for many months I had exhausted my resources and am currently homeless.

Update: I spent a large part of the summer in and out of hospitals or camping out of my car and/or living in a shed. Unfortunately while working to survive I developed a wound in my right foot. I spent several months trying to heal, but due to circumstances I failed. A staph infection, gangrene and sepsis, claimed my foot and I nearly waited to long to go to the ER. The amputation was finalized on August 1st. Currently I am staying at Northbrooke Post Acute rehabbing. Of course the current crisis, the amputation, falls at a time in which I am unemployed and uninsured for the first time in 27 years. While it doesn't help me dig out of the current financial hole, I have received good care and am healing well (right leg). Of course I still have the autoimmune disease, which is affecting my spleen, sternum, right femur, lungs, heart (damage to left ventricle) and lymph system. I believe the immunosuppressants, specifically a large dose of daily steroids contributed to my foot wound failing to heal. Regardless here I am. I am alive. I am thankful.

Medical History/ailments

Stage 2 rectal Cancer - I beat this but have lived with an ostomy since. August/2010

Drastic weight loss - 460lbs, to a current 235

Bradycardia/Pacemaker - August 2024 - This came out of nowhere, and possibly caused by the Sarcoidosis.

Sarcoidosis - Diagnosed April 2025

Right foot Amputation - August 1, 2025.