When asked how she lost her right leg, there was a time Miranda Cashin, 26, would have spun a tall tale of a five-year-old girl learning to surf with her dad when a shark came and ripped her leg off. If you ask her that same question today, she tells the true story of a baby who was born with tibial hemimelia whose parents made the decision to have her leg amputated when she was 14 months old. “My right leg was underdeveloped and twisted, I had a right abdominal wall hernia, and [I didn’t have a] proper right hip joint due to the lack of a femur head,” explains the Australia native. The difference in stories, in large part, is due to a personal transformation that occurred as she underwent osseointegration surgery and recovery.
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