A British performing arts student who was diagnosed with cancer and faced losing her leg will soon be walking again after her ankle was used to create a new knee.
Jordon Moody (22) took advice from specialists at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham and rejected a full amputation in favour of a procedure called rotationplasty.
The delicate operation, carried out by the UK's National Health Service (NHS) in July, involved removing most of her thigh and reattaching her lower leg to replace it.
Jordon's shinbone is now where her thigh was - but back to front - so her ankle joint acts like a knee and her foot points backwards ready to have an artificial limb attached.
"At first it was backwards," she explained. "They'd say 'straighten your foot' and I'd automatically bend it."
"Obviously my calf is at the front, if I got an itch on my calf I'd automatically go round the back because my brain and I am used to it being round the back, so that took a lot of getting used to."
Jordon's foot is now attached to her knee | Image: YouTube/standuptocancerUK
The operation has become a recognised procedure in the rare cases where someone needs to have their leg amputated but the lower limb is healthy.
Jordon, from Hessle, near Hull, has publicised her case as part of the Cancer Research UK Stand Up To Cancer fundraising drive.
She hopes to have her prosthetic limb fitted next month and will then have to learn to walk again.
"Once I have that fitted then I'm up and running, I can get rid of my crutches which I've needed for a couple of years now," she said.
*Video contains some surgical scenes*
