Patrick Hogan's left leg was amputated three years ago. He had complications from diabetes. Hogan is a retired radio announcer.
His shoe size is 13-D. After the amputation, Hogan's need for shoes changed forever. He realized that in order to buy new shoes, he had to pay full price for a pair and then throw the left one into a growing pile in the back of his closet.
One day, Hogan was thumbing through the phone book and he came across the
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National Odd Shoe Exchange in Phoenix. That's when his luck changed.
The non-profit agency has been around since 1943, serving people with two different-size feet or, like Hogan, with only one foot.
The organization is called NOSE. Its cramped offices overflow with more than one million shoes donated by more than two dozen manufacturers. It serves 17,000 people in the United States and Canada.
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2007 McGraw-Hill Higher Education