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I had cancer that developed close to joints
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I experienced quite heavy pain above the knee. They decided to do the rotationplasty
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Right now, I still have a knee, even though it's my foot
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Thinking about this makes me also sad. Oh God, I actually accept myself
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It took a while to actually really take off my artificial leg and take pictures the way I am
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It's somehow like a superpower. With the age of nine years, I experienced quite heavy pain above the knee
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And I remember I was in sports class and we had a competition and I almost fall on the ground because I had such a pain
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And then we went to the family doctor. The doctor sent actually us to a hospital
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after they got a biopsy. They told us, okay, it's aggressive cancer
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it's not a good one, so we have to go directly into chemotherapy
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and see what happened with the leg They decided to do the rotationplasty because one benefit is that you won have plantain pain which I don So right now I still have a knee even though it my
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foot. I was shocked. I definitely was speechless and thinking about this make me also sad
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oh god maybe I need to go yeah yeah definitely still a bit sad because oh sorry
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once in a while just everything comes up and but this is it I actually accept myself
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it took a while though one of the situation that i felt really uncomfortable
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i remember i was wearing hot pants and it was a summer day i just noticed a woman from farther
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away and she starts screaming and i was so scared because i did couldn't really um i didn't really
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know what happened suddenly because she was just right to the to just close to me screaming like out of nothing and then i noticed from the from her facial expression that she was looking
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to my leg and she was so shocked um shocked the moment that she actually realized i have
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artificial leg this year i actually decided no more hiding i actually started with instagram
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around two years ago and I posted mostly traveling picture. My Instagram profile is me having a
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rotationplasty and suffered of osteosarcoma. I want to contribute that to increase actually
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awareness of this situation. There is this kind of rotationplasty out there. It's an option that
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you can consider if you personally have to deal with this cancer I've been through or maybe
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somebody close to you is dealing with osteosarcoma. Like I received so many good
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feedback from my close friends Jenny you are so awesome I happy for you You finally decided to post those pictures and you not hiding yourself anymore I was overwhelmed Maybe almost on the crying side because it was too much I had to handle at the moment For the future I think
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definitely going to continue with Instagram. Posting me and my rotationplasty in different
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kind of angles and spreading inspiration, hope and educate people. My message to people out there
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having rotationplasty that they would just be at first grateful having this kind of treatment
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or got that kind of treatment and personally I think it's somehow like a superpower because who
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else can say about themselves that they're having an amputation a leg amputation and still having
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two feet you can be independent one biggest lesson I have learned for myself accept yourself
