The story
Charlotte was a healthy and happy 18 year old, just beginning her business degree at Nottingham Trent University when she contracted Meningitis and Septicemia. 

After a few weeks at university, Charlotte was enjoying her new life: going out and meeting new people, she was having a great time. That was until she awoke on one Tuesday morning with flu-like symptoms. Believing she had ‘fresher’s flu’, she thought nothing of it. Sadly, that was not the case and by Wednesday evening she had been put into an induced coma, where she spent the next three weeks, further spending another four months in hospital. Charlotte will be forever grateful to the team at the Kingsmill Hospital in Mansfield and Nottingham City Hospital for saving her life as many others diagnosed with Meningitis are not so lucky and despite all the after effects, she now has to live her life with, she knows that she is lucky to be alive.

The solution
Charlotte is now a double transtibial amputee, and has also had all the fingers from her left hand amputated. Coming to terms with her own image has been a struggle for Charlotte and deciding how she wanted to look was a major part of her recovery. In order for her to regain her confidence, Charlotte had a look at different partial hand prosthetics available. However, she felt that none were right for her, instead feeling that they would make her hand stand out more than if she wore no false limbs at all. 

Discovering the work of the Steeper Silicone Clinic and the different prosthetics available was a major step in her recovery. Finally, she had found a prosthetic that would help her to hide in a crowd and disappear from the stares. Charlotte’s experience at the Steeper Silicone Clinic has been, “nothing but a pleasure. They have catered to my every desire when creating this prosthetic for me and I couldn’t be happier.”