Monday, October 14, 2013

The answer to the most common question in my life

As I said in the last post my parents had no idea that was going to be born with the disabilities that  I had. The doctors noticed that there was some kind of bump on my stomach with tests they found out that I had an Omphalocele. When I was born the doctors took me a way to find out what else was wrong, because when a baby has an omphalocele it is common for the baby to have other complications that range from physical to mental disabilities. In my case it caused my right leg to develop wrong and and my thumb on my right is a little deformed. On the day I was born I had surgery to repair the omphalocele. I was in the hospital for the first 16 days on my life. The doctors told my parents about their options to help my right leg.  They were given two options. 
1)  rebuild my leg with many different surgeries as I grew up. 
2)  to amputate my leg partially and have me fitted with a prosthetic leg

 I was fitted with my first leg when I was two years old. At first I was afraid of my leg it slowed me down. I had learned how to get around with out it. The doctors told my parents  to put my leg in my toy box and in my bed so I could become familiar with it. It worked! Can you image the neighbors coming over and seeing a fake leg in they baby's  toy box. HAHAHA wouldn't that be funny! Here are some pictures to show more of the story. 


In this picture you can see how my right leg was different then my left leg. I was missing a tibia bone in my shin and my thigh bone is shorter. 


This is after I had my leg amputated 


This is my first leg! 

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