Hello everyone. I'm James for those who don't know me and for those that do. Hi friends and family. So here is why I'm here. Christmas 2024, I noticed my legs were starting to fill with fluid. It was alarming to me that this was happening, so I went to Med First and they did an EKG on me and found the results to be bad, so they called the ambulance to come get me and take me to Melbourne Hospital. There, they did a string of tests on me and came to the conclusion that my kidney had stopped functioning properly and my heart had an irregular heartbeat. So they put tubes in my neck to start dialysis and pull out a good amount of fluids from my body. After that, I was transported to Orlando Hospital where I had the tubes moved from my neck to my chest, and they said I had blockages in a number of arteries coming from my heart. They took me into surgery and put in stents to open my blood vessels. I spent New Year's and just about the whole month of January there until they brought me back to Melbourne Hospital. There, I spent a few more weeks under observation until they released me. So from there, they put me on dialysis three times a week. Thankfully and happily, I was able to go back to work, well, with all the doctor's visits I had to navigate through after all that. Then come September the third, I had to go into Rockledge Hospital and have a simple surgery done. They were going to put in a fistula. Under anesthesia, the doctor cut open a place on my arm where they were implanting it, and my heart stopped beating. They resuscitated me and stopped the surgery. Woke me up and told me that the stents had failed and that I needed bypass heart surgery. So weeks later, the day of the surgery came. I spent over two months in the hospital under observation there and then was transferred to Melbourne and released in January, therefore spending the holidays in the hospital again. Once I got home, I was told I couldn't go back to work, no stressful activities, and a strict diet. Plus, I was directed to wear a life vest 24-7 just in case my heart stopped beating because my ejection fraction was a 3.0, which a normal is 5.0, meaning I was at high risk of a heart attack. So June came around and I was back in the hospital for a sore on my right foot. That was on my third toe. It came out of nowhere, and a few days later, a vein discolored on top of my foot. While I was there, the sore went from red to black, covering half of the third toe. Two days later, the toe next to that one had turned black, then my big toe did the same, so I agreed to amputation of the toes, trying to save some of the foot. At which time, throughout that, my left foot too started developing sores. So they went in and amputated all my toes to try to save my foot, which didn't work because the necrosis moved up my feet. Also, the necrosis started on both my ring fingers, so I lost the tip of my right hand ring finger and some of my left hand ring finger, and necrosis on other parts of the body. Now, with no hope for the feet as the infection spread, they decided that the only way to stop it is to amputate both legs below the knees. So that is what was done. After a few months in the hospital healing, they transferred me to a nursing home for rehabilitation to build strength in my arms and legs. Because about that time, I lost a lot of weight and I looked pretty bad. I only spent a month there because my insurance would not cover any more than that. So I never got the adequate rehabilitation I needed to have. So 4 months of healing it took before I could go and get my prosthetic legs in, which brings me to why I'm asking anyone for some help, please. I would love to walk again, to stand on my own. And if I get good enough, I can go back to work. Possibly back to what I love doing. I went through all the appointments and they built my legs for me. But now I'm at a standstill, literally, where my insurance doesn't cover my legs all the way and I can't afford them because of what little money I get from SSI. To get my prosthetic legs, I have to pay $5,648. I can do a payment plan, but I must put down $3,000 to do so. I would love to be able to pay the whole thing off, but if I can only raise up enough money for a down payment, my payment options are $100 a month. I'm in desperate need of anyone and everyone's help, to be able to stand again, to do things on my own, to not be stuck to a wheelchair and live something of a normal life. So please, I beg you, please help me. If there's ever a time I was really in need, it's now. I want my independence back. I don't want to have to depend on Social Security, which does not pay me enough to live. I want to go back to work, so please help me. Find it in your heart to help a person who needs you now.