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Photo Gallery > The Glorious 'Before' Pictures (Warning: some photos are graphic) > Day of Surgery

We wrote "STOP! Not this leg, this one" with an arrow toward my left leg. We thought it was funny until the nurse at the hospital actually made me write "YES" on my left leg. Notice how my big toe doesn't lay flat on the floor and my entire foot is rolled to the outside. It made shoe buying difficult.