HI MY NAME IS CHARLIE MCKINNEY IM 46 YEARS OLD I LIVE

I COLLINSVILLE IL. WITH MY WIFE AND ANIMALS. WRITING THIS IS KIND OF EMBARRASSING AS AI TRULY HATE TO ASK FOR HELP. BUT HERE'S MY STORY ABOUT 8 YEARS AGO I HAD ABUNDANT SURGERY ON MY FOOT THAT WENT BAD STARTED OUT. WHAT THE CASE OF OSTEOMULITIS, WHICH TOOK HALF OF MY SIDE OF MY FOOT, I CAME BACK FROM THAT, BUT AFTER A WHILE, TURNING ON THE SIDE OF MY FOOT, IT STARTED TO WALK SIDEWAYS, AND I HAD A COMPLETE COMPOUND FRACTURE, THE TIVIA, AND A DISLOCATED ANKLE. GOOD DOCTORS SAID I SHOULD'VE LOST MY FOOT OR MY LEG AT THAT TIME. BUT I ENDED IT UP PUTTING PLATES AND SCREWS IN THE LEG AT THE TIME DURING THAT I SOMEHOW BENT A PLATE, AND THEY HAD TO TAKE IT OUT MY LEG AND ANKLE WAS IN A EXTERNAL FIXATOR 48 WEEKS TO ALLOW MY ANKLE AND FOOT AND LEG TO FUSE INTO ONE PIECE ONCE. I CAME BACK FROM THAT A FEW MONTHS LATER, THE OSTEOMULITIS CAME BACK AND I HAD 2 FEET SURGERIES AT 1 TIME. AND I WAS OUT OF WORK 12 WEEKS WHILE ON IV ANTIBIOTICS, I CAME BACK TO WORK WORKING AS A DSP, WORKING WITH INDIVIDUALS. WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, WHICH IS NOT JUST THE JOB, WOULD BE TRUE CALLING FOR ME. BACK IN JUNE AFTER ANOTHER MRI IT APPEARED TO THE DOCTOR THAT THE OSTEOMELITIS WAS, IN FACT, BACK AFTER TWO WEEKS OF WORRY, I I GOT THE THE WORD THAT IN FACT, THE BONE INFECTION WAS BACK AFTER TALKING TO MY AMAZING WIFE. WE DECIDED THAT BLOW THE KNEE. AMPUTATION WAS THE BEST COURSE OF ACTION FOR ME. SO ON FRIDAY, JUNE 11TH, I WENT BACK TO THE HOSPITAL AND HAD UPLOAD THE AMPUTATION. I'VE BEEN WORKING HARD IT REHAB TO GET BACK TO NORMAL AND TO MAKE MY ONE GOAL, ISTO GET BACK TO THE INDIVIDUALS THAT I LOVE SO MUCH AND TRY AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE, AND PEOPLE WITH AUTISM AND DOWN SYNDROME DIDN'T OTHER DIFFERENT ABILITIES. LIFE BETTER.

I HUMBLY ASK AS THAT CANNOT WORK.

TO HELP TAKE THE EASE OF EVERYDAY LIFE. IF YOU COULD DONATE A LITTLE BIT TO HELP ME GET BACK TO MY PEEPS. IT NEEDLE, BED COUNTS.

WHAT'S A FULLY HEELED? I PLAN ON GETTING BACK TO WORK ON MY FAKE LEG. I'M WORKING HARD TO MAKE THEIR LIVES AND MY LIFE BETTER AND SPREAD THE WORD OF GENEROSITY IN LOVE.

IF YOU CAN DONATE, I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND LIFE IS HARD. ENOUGH FOR EVERYBODY. I'M CURRENTLY IN REHAB WORKING HARD. LET ONE GO IN MIND TO THE ONES WHO DONATED ALREADY. YOU CAN'T EXPLAIN.

TO SAY THANK YOU ENOUGH, BECAUSE THAT WORD FALLS SHORT I ASKED THIS MORE FOR MY FAMILY. GOODNESS, IT IS FOR ME TO HELP. OKAY, THE THESE IT MAKE THEIR LIFE LESS

BURDEN s some people used to see this. Might not know who I am. Some people who do know who I was but never right knows who I am now.

So please again, if you can help me take some of the stress off and get to work faster, so I continue to prove, no matter what kind of ability you have or disability? You can make a difference in this life, much love, charlie, mckinney.