Double amputee, family living hard knock life

The couple’s home

In a rotting Grove Squatting Area, East Bank Demerara shack, Rickford McKenzie spends most of his good days in a chair in front of the television. It has been just over two months since he lost his second leg.

McKenzie, 56, is a diabetic whose right leg is amputated mid-thigh, while his left leg is amputated just under the knee. After losing the first leg four years ago, he had learned to move around with a walking stick, but it is no use to him now. “I don’t do nothing. I just sit down at home. I feel a way being at home all the time