00:00I had cancer that developed close to joints. I experienced quite heavy pain above the knee.
00:08They decided to do the rotationplasty. Right now I still have a knee even though it's my foot.
00:15Thinking about this makes me also sad. Oh god. I actually accept myself. It took a while to
00:22actually really take off my artificial leg and take pictures the way I am. It's somehow like
00:29superpower. With the age of nine years I experienced quite heavy pain above the knee.
00:39I remember I was in sports class and we had a competition and I almost fell on the ground
00:48because I had such a pain. Then we went to the family doctor. The doctor sent us to
00:56a hospital. They got a biopsy. They told us okay it's aggressive cancer. It's not the good one.
01:03So we have to go directly into chemotherapy and see what happened with the leg. They decided to
01:11do the rotationplasty because one benefit is that you won't have phantom pain which I don't. So
01:20right now I still have a knee even though it's my foot. I was shocked. I definitely was speechless
01:27and thinking about this makes me also sad. Oh god. Maybe I need to cry. Yeah.
01:35Um
01:39yeah definitely still a bit sad because oh sorry
01:50once in a while just everything comes up and but this is it. I actually accept myself.
01:56It took a while though. One of the situations that I felt really uncomfortable. I remember I
02:05was wearing hot pants and it was a summer day. I just noticed a woman from farther away and she
02:11started screaming and I was so scared because I didn't really know what happened suddenly
02:20suddenly because she was just right to the to just close to me screaming like out of nothing
02:28and then I noticed from the from her facial expression that she was looking
02:35to my leg and she was so shocked um shocked the moment that she actually realized I have
02:44artificial leg. This year I actually decided no more hiding. I actually started with Instagram
02:50two years ago and I posted mostly traveling pictures. My Instagram profile is me having a
02:57rotationplasty and suffered of osteosarcoma. I want to contribute that to increase actually
03:05awareness of this situation. There is this kind of rotationplasty out there. It's an option that
03:12you can consider if you personally have to deal with the scams that I've been through or maybe
03:19somebody close to you is dealing with osteosarcoma. Like I received so many good feedbacks from my
03:27close friends. Jenny you're so awesome. I'm happy for you. You finally decided to post those pictures
03:34and you're not hiding yourself anymore. I was overwhelmed. Maybe almost on the crying side
03:41because it was too much I had to handle at the moment. For the future I think definitely going
03:47to continue with Instagram. Posting me and my rotationplasty in different kind of angles and
03:55spreading inspiration hope and if you hate people. My message to people out there who are having
04:02rotationplasty that they should just be at first grateful having this kind of treatment or got that
04:10kind of treatment and personally I think it's somehow like a superpower because who else can
04:18say about themselves that they're having an amputation, a leg amputation and still having
04:24two feet. You can be independent. One biggest lesson I have learned for myself, accept yourself.
04:40you
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