Cameron Jones and Cooper Spillane were living with excruciating pain in their legs, but made the big decision to amputate – and they say they haven’t looked back since.
abc.net.au/news/australian-teenagers-amputation-paralympic-dreams/101370390Simple tasks like walking around at school were agony, let alone trying to pursue his greatest love – playing football.
Cameron had to adjust to life as an amputee, dealing with phantom pains, using a wheelchair and a prosthesis. Just nine weeks after his amputation, he competed in the Canoe Sprint National Championships, and won a gold and silver medal. "They basically broke the tibia, put a rod on the high side and the low side and you wind the scaffolding out, which separates the tibia, which grows bone and so you generate length from that," dad Matt Spillane explained.Cooper's leg was able to grow around five centimetres, to nearly draw level with his other leg. But he then suffered knee complications.
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