Hector Perez will walk again.
He's not quite sure when it will happen, but the double amputee is confident it will.
"I visualize myself walking again,'' Perez said, waiting in the lobby of his doctor's office. "I know it will happen because it's all I think about.''
Two years ago Perez, 47, lost his left leg after a bacterial infection spread through his tissues. The choice was lose his leg or lose his life.
Just as he getting accustomed to life without a limb, another infection emerged in his right leg, and he was forced to have it removed Nov. 18.
Life without legs has been a difficult transition for a man who would often run on the treadmill six days a week. There's no more getting into his car and going as he pleases. The Miami Beach man must now wait up to an hour for an STS bus fitted for wheelchairs to pick him up for doctor's appointments.
Perez is asking Wishbook readers for a wheelchair with motorized wheels.
"The power-assisted wheels would give him more of the mobility and independence he seeks,'' said Leticia Fisher, clinical research coordinator at the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, the agency that nominated Perez for Wishbook.
