Monday, January 31, 2011

Neighbors Trade Homes with Leg Amputee

Saturday’s move was the culmination of months of adversity for Wright, a 40-year-old software consultant with Associates Solutions of Lenexa. However wrenching the trauma has been, it also has showcased the charity of his friends.

“This has brought the absolute best out of people,” he said.

The ordeal began in March, when Wright broke his right femur.

“I was just crossing the street,” he said.

Doctors diagnosed osteosarcoma, a cancer more often seen in children. They amputated the leg and ordered several weeks of chemotherapy. During the treatments, Wright had to stay home from work.

But home was a multistory house, and he had lost a leg.

So friends Micki and Billy Shreve intervened.

Visiting Wright in the hospital after the amputation, the Shreves said it was God’s wish that Wright, wife Shawna and their four children, ages 2 through 13, move into their single-story home.

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