Mark Sweatman hopes to change lives with a 120-mile walk from Atlanta to Birmingham, a feat he would have never thought of undertaking were his life not forever changed by a Sunday stroll through Piedmont Park.
“I’m more active now as an amputee than I was before I lost my leg, because I don’t take things for granted as much,” says Sweatman, a gay Midtown resident whose left leg was amputated below the knee in January 2010. “I know how valuable mobility is, how precious it is to be able to get up, be active and do things.”