ROCHESTER — Bob Trebble has no feeling in his lower left leg, the result of a home improvement mishap suffered at his southeast Rochester home. Trebble is a veteran. To help him keep his independence, local groups and volunteers worked to build him a new deck with a handicapped-accessible ramp.
They unveiled their work to the public on Veterans Day. ADVERTISEMENT Trebble’s injury, suffered several years ago, jeopardized his independence. While working on his roof, Trebble had climbed down to get something.
As he headed back up, a nail gun on the roof fell and hit him on the head, firing two nails an inch and half into his skull cap. Trebble lay on the ground for half a day before a neighbor found him. Trebble’s sciatic nerve was crushed from lying on his side so long, permanently depriving him of feeling in his lower leg.
Trebble wears a leg brace to get around but his leg can buckle and he will, in time, need a wheelchair. Trebble, 63, is also a U.S.
Army and National Guard veteran and served as a field medical specialist in the 1980s. To help with his mobility at home, which he shares with his wife Margaret, a group of Rochester retirees spent months working on the project in the couple’s backyard. Trebble is the most recent local veteran to benefit from home improvements through a program called “Homebound Heroes.
” The project was completed just before Veterans Day, making it the most recent of 82 projects completed over the last five years in Olmsted, Rice, an.
