A British cancer survivor underwent surgery and ended up having her left foot reattached backwards - and it was no accident.
When Jordon Moody, of East Yorkshire, England, was diagnosed with bone cancer for the second time, doctors gave her the choice of either having her whole left leg amputated or having an extreme surgery called a rotationplasty, Caters News reported.
"They told me they could get rid of my thigh and use the bottom part of my leg to replace the top part and my foot would become my knee," Moody told Caters News.
However, surgeons would have to reattach her foot backwards in order for her foot to bend the same way her knee does.
"It was really hard to hear and I just wanted to run out of the room" Moody said.
The 22-year-old went through with the rotationplasty- which is often used in cancer patients- at the Royal Orthopedic Hospital in Birmingham in July.
"We connected her shin bone to the remaining thing bone, creating a knee joint from her foot," said Dr. Lee Jeys, who performed Moody's surgery and does similar surgeries three times a year, Caters News reported. "The idea of the operation is where we turn the foot around and move it up, so Jordon could have a below the knee prosthesis."
Moody's life changed permanently when doctors found bone cancer in her thigh while she was studying performing arts in New York. She went through a grueling period of chemotherapy and was declared cancer free, only to be diagnosed with the disease again after visiting family last year in Germany.
"In all honesty, you just have the fear that you are going to die," she told Caters News. "It's there in the back of your mind all the time."
Moody survived the illness and surgery and now has one foot rotated 180 degrees with her heel in front.
"It took some getting used [to] but now, it seems totally normal to me," Moody told the news agency.
Her next goal is to be fitted for a prosthetic, to be attached at the joint created with her foot, so she can stop using a wheelchair and crutches to get around.
"Hopefully, before Christmas, I will be walking unaided again."
