The astonishing operation that reattaches people's feet back to front - and how it's meant brave Amelia can dance again By Caroline Scott Published: 02:03, 11 June 2024 | Updated: 02:03, 11 June 2024 e-mail View comments Rather than baking a cake and holding a party for their daughter Amelia’s seventh birthday, Michelle and Richard Eldred spent the day at her bedside in Birmingham Children’s Hospital, anxiously waiting for the results of a biopsy which would tell them if the tumour in her thigh was cancer . Amelia, an only child, was active, sporty, dance-mad and so healthy her parents barely remember her having a cough or a cold. So when her mild symptoms of a few weeks — pain in her left thigh at night and some swelling — were confirmed later that day as osteosarcoma, or bone cancer, it seemed unfathomable to them.
With Amelia’s birthday presents, including a new bike which she would never ride, waiting at home in Tamworth, Staffordshire, the family was told she would need chemotherapy to try to shrink the tumour sufficiently so that surgeons could remove the remainder. Amelia Eldred, 13, was diagnosed with osteoporosis sarcoma, a bone cancer, in her right thigh bone at seven With her parents, Michelle and Richard, who spent her seventh birthday at her hospital bedside, waiting for the results of a biopsy which would tell them if the tumour in her thigh was cancer The plan was to perform an operation called limb salvage or limb-sparing, which would save her leg. T.
