Unlike the picture, she was born with both feet being club feet. The left one was fixed by casts when she was a baby and the other foot was severely deformed so she had first surgery at Shriners Hospital when she was 2 months old. This would be the first of 30 just on her leg. They helped her get the leg working as she was a kid. She had maybe 6 surgeries before she was 13. She just had to wear braces all the time. At the age of 13 she started to grow which started to cause problems with the leg. From the age of 13-25 she had 23 surgeries to correct the problem. They fused her ankle so it wouldn't move at all.
They surgically broke her leg and she had to stretch her leg with an Illizarov Frame.
Her leg was 2 1/4 shorter then the other one. She just had surgery after surgery. At the age of 25 she kept breaking her ankle and they kept having to go back in and surgically fix it. She was taking 100 Tylenol a week to kill the pain and she just couldn't do anything to get it better. So the doctor offered amputation. On June 26, 2002 she had her leg amputated below her knee.
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