'There's something bigger in store for me'
By Jodi Heckel
Monday May 8, 2006
John Dixon
Erica Van Zuidam holds one of the 15 pairs of shoes she wears on her prostetic feet. Erica, who admits to a lifelong shoe fetish, laughs as she explains, "My mom jokes that I have more shoes than other people that have feet!"
Erica Van Zuidam sat in her hospital bed and stared at her hands and feet. The hands that used to hit a volleyball and the feet that used to fly around a track were now black and hard and shriveled. On the last full day that Erica remembered, nearly two months before, she was soaking up the sun at the pool.
Now she was at the University of Chicago hospital, where she was taken June 26 by helicopter from Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana.
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