Carol Murray

So there was a little bit of dirt in there, and it was a raging infection.

So every second day, I would go to the O.R.,

for something called irrigation to clean it.

And I didn't know right away because my family wanted me to remain positive.

And they're really positive.

The support network I had is really unreal.

But toxic amputation were happening.

And it would have been the amputation at the hip.

So I wouldn't have even really had much of a stump.

So it sounds really bizarre, but I had 16 centimeters of

What's that?

That's about five inches maybe.

I don't know.

I don't know the math as well as I should.

I had 16 centimeters, like a small half of a small ruler, of a ruler.

I had 16 centimeters of my right femur removed and I grew back 14 centimeters.

So it was really painful.

I had external fixators, which are like huge, big rings on the outside of my legs and pins, big, huge pins as thick as my index finger.

And I had to move the contraption to support the bone growth and pins are slicing through my leg.

And I had to do this every day.