Roger Queen Has Been Given A True Miracle OF Life

**I removed the original explanation and updated this with my recent understanding. I have gone through a great deal sincere starting this. I really didn't know how much I would go through back then either. So now that I know a lot about my situation and alot about the surgery, I wanted to explain it all a little better. Love y'all. Thanks for all of the prayers and support. **

It can be hard to navigate all these updates and things to find out what’s really going on with me. So here is a summary for the people that are new to the page are new to my story.

The closer I get to Surgery the more people keep asking me why I’m getting the surgery or what kind of surgery is it. I understand. It’s easier to ask than to read my profile or even read the GoFundMe link. So I decided to build a response and use it as a template to just copy and paste. So anyone curious about why I’m getting the surgery on April 8th called a hemicorporectomy where they will amputate the whole lower half of my body, from the belly button down, here is the answer in the simplest form. Also, there’s a random picture of me when I was 19 years old. Love y’all lol.

When I got paralyzed by wrecking an ATV off the side of a 60ft cliff on May 5, 2006, I got my first Wheelchair and it broke in half while I was in Walmart. So I was given a loaner chair while they repaired my chair. The loaner chair, of course, was not fitted to me and I would spend way too much time in it causing too much pressure on my butt.

I was also overmedicated with pain and anxiety medications to where my wife says I would drool on myself and talk to invisible people and I would sleep in my chair a few times which is a big no-no. This then caused bed sores on my butt so I was required to have Home Health come out and take care of it daily.

The nurse would come out every morning to clean and dress my wounds. even with proper care and keeping pressure off of them, they would just get bigger and bigger. So we finally figured out that I had already developed a tunnel into the bone that had caused a bone infection. The bone infection was treated with at least 15 six-week hospital stays to receive IV antibiotics over the last 16 years. I also would get a total of 3 flap surgeries over those years on the bed sore where they take flesh from my thigh and use it like plastic surgery to close the wound. This surgery required 6-8 weeks in a hospital bed lying on your side. I was allowed to put zero pressure on my butt during the 6-8 weeks. I would follow directions every time, and it would never heal.

Every time the reason the surgery would fail, was because they couldn’t seem to get all the bone infection out. To get the infection out, you need to remove the infected portion of the bone. Unfortunately, they didn’t realize how far the bone infection, which is called osteomyelitis had spread.

So, I gave up on surgeries and just went to work and had wound care every day for the last 15 years. My wife was able to pick up the wound care process and has been my wound care nurse for the last 14 years. Unfortunately, the bone infection would spread down to my feet to where my whole lower half is a bone infection. The infection has eaten the bones and I have no pelvis and no hips. My lower half is literally being held on by tendons with no bone support

So I gave up on surgeries because every surgery required me to lay in a hospital bed on my side for 6 to 8 weeks. It became quite redundant and miserable to continue doing the surgeries with no success. So after three surgeries and still the wound never healed, I gave up on trying to heal and just worked 60 hours a week to provide for my family. I left my job in March 2022 and decided to go back to the orthopedic surgeon to see if anything could be done because I was tired of being sick all the time. When I went to the orthopedic surgeon in March 2022 he told me the only option was this surgery called a Hemicorporectomy and if I didn’t do it I had one to two years left to live.

Took me a year to accept it and then another year to get all 5 doctors needed and the board of ethics to agree to it. So here I am. A few days away from surgery. I’ve made it more than two years since he told me that I had less than two years to live. but I’m definitely close to the end. I can feel it in my body. I’m down to 100 pounds from 230.

So this is considered a life-saving surgery. I’m equally frightened and excited for the opportunity to keep on living.

So this is the answer to how I got where I am needing this surgery. Sorry it’s so long but it’s the only way to explain it. Hopefully, it made sense.

And again, here is a random picture of me 19 years old in a homeless shelter. I missed that pink blanket. It was comfortable lol thank you for the prayers and financial support and y’all stay blessed. And remember, God is good, no matter what my story may sound traumatic, but I assure you, God has been good to me, and his grace and mercy in my life are by far extraordinary.

Like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego said: my God can, and I believe my God will, but even if my God doesn’t, I’m gonna sing shout praise, glorify his holy name because he is worthy. I know that’s not word for it in the Bible, but close enough lol it is worthy to be praise that’s all that matters.

And as always, thank you so much for the support it means the world to my family.