Breaking ground for new home for quadruple amputee in Lincoln County

STANFORD, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW)– A Lincoln County woman whose limbs were amputated after a kidney infection is now just days away from moving into her forever home.
A groundbreaking ceremony was held on Wednesday that will allow Cindy Mullins, a quadruple amputee to move into a brand new accessible home soon.

“I’ve been blessed with this life now. It’s a blessing, it’s not a curse. God doesn’t punish you for things. He gave me this life because he thought I could handle it,” says Cindy Mullins, reflecting on losing her limbs but being alive.

Each day presents new challenges for Mullins of Lincoln County, left with no arms or legs, Cindy is now forced to re-learn things many of us take granted every day.

“I’ll use the hooks first and learn to adapt with that and then we will move to my electric hands that will feel the nerves and senses in my body and that will make my what look like hands and fingers move,” added Mullins, who is getting accustomed to her prosthetics, and will eventually move to robotic prosthetics.

After suffering from complications from surgery, for a kidney stone, Cindy went into sepsis which led to the loss of both, her arms and her legs.

“It’s the most humbling feeling to have people stop me or tell me that I’m in an inspiration and it’s just hard for me to imagine,” also says Mullins.

But the spirit of Cindy remains more vibrant than ever, and now, she has something to look forward to, a new home.

“It’s crazy to even think about, but also super neat to see all these people come together to do it in 10 days and by the power of prayer and God’s blessing and hopefully not bad weather, we’ll get a house built in 10 days,” she says.

The 41-year-old adding that throughout this journey, her husband has been her rock to lean on.

“God knew I needed him, before I needed him, so he’s been definitely the stability in our family household and does more than I could ever imagine doing, and he truly is the love of my life,” said Mullins.

10 days to build a dream home, with the goal to make it easy for Cindy to have access to anything she may need.

“So every single detail in this house has been thoughtfully considered for her own special needs, current and future and for her aging in place. Some of the special things that we are doing, are custom cabinets, to the height is a little bit higher to accommodate her wheelchair, her counter top. He is going to accommodate for her in a wheelchair as well as when she’s using her prosthetics,” said Liz Betack, the interior designer, Liz Betack Design Studio.

James Crocker the CEO of Hog Technologies is the man helping make the home a reality.

“So September 9th will mark the beginning of the 10 day project, we will raise the walls, frame, and dried in, in one day, and then on the 18th, at 2 p.m. there’ll be a home reveal,” added Crocker.

As construction plans continue underway for the new home, “I’d like to raise awareness of trying to make the world and our new builds more universal appropriate for all different types of people,” said Betack.

Crocker also adding, “if we can go to the moon and back, we can build a house in 10 days.”

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