Charmaine 'So much happier' now she is walking again

Royal Signals veteran Charmaine Healy is walking again, more than three years since she was last able to use her prosthetic.

Charmaine’s left leg was amputated below the knee following a bomb blast in Afghanistan in 2010, and she has struggled with pain ever since. She has had eight operations in the last decade, and her most recent one – last July – has allowed her to use her prosthetic leg again.

“My skin started to break down in 2017 which caused an infection. It was really painful, and I eventually found out the infections had led to a sinus tract,” said Charmaine.

Following recovery, Charmaine was fitted with a socket in mid-December.

“Within two weeks, I was able to walk on it almost every day. I’m so much happier since the operation – I was signed off from the mental health team before Christmas, and I had been seeing them since 2015.”