Leo now walks with a prosthetic leg – fashionably decorated with Pokémon characters
A brave little boy who was born with one leg only half the size of the other and had his foot amputated when he was 18 months old now walks with a 'robot limb' and has completed an incredible challenge to help others.
“As his left leg was so much shorter than his right, his foot was in line with his right knee and off at an angle,” explained Claire. “He couldn’t really use it so when he was about 18 months old he had a type of foot amputation known as a Symes amputation. In 2020 Leo was back in hospital for a second operation, this time on his hip. His leg wasn’t sat in his hip joint properly, so surgeons at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital had to reconstruct a new joint from bone and metal.
“He calls his prosthetic his ‘robot leg’,” said Claire. “Most people might think it’s bad to have a child in hospital, but I think Leo secretly enjoys having people waiting on him. Leo has been a patient of Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital since he was a baby and wanted to do the challenge to help his fellow young patients. His mum Claire said: “We saw some Charity banners in the hospital and that was the first time we realised there was a charity for the children’s hospital.
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