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Steve Maloney Jr. 🤪🤪🤪

On 9/11 I passed out at home in the early morning and severely broke my left leg and required a metal rod and four screws to put it back together. Then I broke my right foot as well. Things have been severely hard since then. As a person that never asked for help, this has humbled me greatly. They said I would be non weight bearing for eight weeks, BUT thank God I’m able to finally put some weight on my legs. I’m learning to walk again and it’s sooooo hard. But as they say no pain no gain! I can walk very distances right now and still require a wheelchair. I’m going home from being in the hospital and rehab for a month on Thursday!!! I’ll take a hospital bed, wheelchair, bed side toilet, walker and in home care. My insurance doesn’t cover these fully so I’m having to come out of pocket (which I don’t have tbh). This is why my fiancé started this go fund me for me. If you can’t give, please share this. That would mean a lot to me as well. If you feel lead to give, THANK YOU! Thank you for being patient with during this time of recovery and understanding of the fact I can’t do photography right now. Photography is part of my soul and I miss it terribly. It’s my passion and I hear those sunsets and sunrises calling to me!!! I’ll be back tho and stronger than ever thanks to your prayers, positive vibes, healing energy and your generous donations out through you skating this post. Thanks again to you all!

UPDATE 9/27/25: so I’ve been in rehab almost two weeks. I’ve been strengthening my arms to help with compensating for what my legs can’t do and my legs so they don’t atrophy as much. It’s been going well! These past few days I’ve been learning how to walk again!!!! So exciting! Not going to lie it’s been really hard. I have psoriatic arthritis and fibromyalgia so my body will give out on me if it’s in too much pain or if I’m extremely tired. I’ve been pushing myself really hard bc I want to get back to normal like yesterday, but my body is telling me it can’t do it. I was actually going to have a shoulder replacement last Friday bc my psoriatic arthritis has been attacking my joints and tendons so aggressively. I’m only 44. That’s really young for these problems and for a shoulder replacement. I figured after this I could handle any kind of pain, but I keep getting told that the shoulder replacement is the worst. That scares me. I’m posting my link to my go fund me but if you’re not comfortable giving that’s ok. Prayers are greatly spectated as well! I should be going home either Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday so that’s exciting but scary at the same time. I have PTSD from the accident and I’m scared to go home and see the bathroom and hallway again. I will continue my therapy at home and have a nurse come a couple times a week. The go fund me is for medical bills that my insurance doesn’t cover, medical supplies I’m going to need, for a nurse to come by everyday and someone to come clean. If you feel lead to give then I gratefully say thank you and I appreciate you. If you can’t, then prayers and positive vibes are greatly accepted as well! Thank you for your well wishes and support! It means so much to me! https://gofund.me/156b544e

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