"It's not me, it's you": the touching letter of a young amputee woman

"It's not me, it's you", so began Jordan Beckwith a letter to say goodbye to his right footwhich has caused an infinite amount of pain since his teenage accident at the age of 13.

After several years of continuous operations on your member, the 27-year-old girl decided to become an amputee improve their living conditions.

But before undergoing the two-and-a-half hour operation, he wrote at his feet: "It's not me, it's you, I'm sure we had a good time together, but it's time for us to separate. I wish you the best"

Jordan opted for amputation after several years of intense pain and several operations.

His ordeal began when he fell off a horse in 2005, an accident in which he broke his ankle.

"My horse stumbled and I put his shoulder. I landed on my neck and fainted for a second."said the Daily Mail.

The pain prevented him from getting up and the doctor told him that the shin bone had been broken at the bottom of the leg.

He said he suffered a very strange injury, qualified by the same doctors. "The lower part of the bone was broken. An inch of it broke and was pushed into my leg, "he said.

She underwent a first surgery that did not turn out as expected because the ankle did not lined upThe doctors broke her up again and put her back in the operating room.

A year later, he suffered an ankle fusion between his bone and a six-bolt steel plate, which did not work either. because he always had to take medicine and walk badly.

"It never seemed fair to me," she said, "throughout high school, in the last 14 years, I've always been taking pain medication"he stated.

He added, "I could not walk, I could not do my job, I could not even take my dogs for a two-minute walk. I could not do jiu jitsu. I froze my ankle every night. I did not want to live like that anymore"

In the face of his desperation, Jordan went to a surgeon in Denver, Colorado, who He proposed a new operation to replace the risky ankle or amputate the foot.

The woman at first planned the replacement of the ankle, but after thinking about it and badyzing it he still had to suffer for endless operations, decided to amputate the foot, as this would give a better quality of life for walking and running a day with a prosthesis.

"I looked for all the YouTube videos and all the articles I could talk about to be amputated under the knee. I was operated with two legs and I knew that I would not go out with two legs. It was scary, He said he removed his ankle on October 11 at the University of Colorado Hospital.

After leaving the operation, he said, he felt a lot of pain, but He did not regret it because he hoped to use a pair of shoes and go running, what he wants the most in his life.

Jordan Beckwith shared his story on his channel Youtube Footless Jo, which allows him to document his rehabilitation and to treat the situation as a whole.