I had my foot sewn on backward due to bone cancer — it saved my life

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“I couldn’t imagine seeing myself with a backwards foot. I was thinking that it was like Frankenstein,” Ibrahim Abdulrauf said.

A man may have started his life again on the wrong foot, but it literally saved him.

The then 14-year-old felt a little beaten up but went to bed expecting his young body to recover overnight, but that didn’t happen.”I had an electrocuting pain in my leg and I couldn’t put any weight on it at all.” The English man underwent weeks of antibiotics and chemotherapy before doctors suggested a rotationplasty.“I wasn’t getting any better. My pain was getting worse and I got a big lump on my leg. They thought I had a boil or a cyst,” Abdulrauf said.

“This way I can use my own leg with my own nerves because they reattach them all after putting the leg back on,” he explained.

 

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