ST. LOUIS — Repairs are underway at the apartment where postal worker Hildré Carter lived on St. Louis Avenue.

He was recovering from a recent surgery when the devastating May 16 tornado tore through parts of north St. Louis.

“I had a blood vessel that burst in my left foot,” said Carter. “I’m a mail carrier, so I need my foot. I had to have surgery.”

The 57-year-old was prescribed heart medicine, but that prescription was lost to the tornado.

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“I just came through AFib,” he said. “You just don’t want to be without your meds.”

Carter has stayed at the American Red Cross shelter at Refresh Community Church in University City. That’s where the Red Cross helped connect him with Rx Outreach, a nonprofit mail-order pharmacy

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