Just One Foot: How Amputation Cured My Disability

Just One Foot: How Amputation Cured My Disability

Judy Berna spent a lifetime hiding the deformed foot that kept her from being able to have the active life she desired. Not wanting to burden her parents, who were foster parents to a revolving list of needy children, she taught herself early on to live with the consequences of a limb that didn't work. Through her teen years, and then college, she successfully hid her disability. <br />When she reached her mid thirties she'd had enough. She was tired of missing out on the fun stuff in life with her husband and four young children. On January 12, 2004 she limped into a hospital on two feet and crutched out a day later with just one. <br />Hers is a story of elective amputation and the great rewards that came her way, once she traded in that tired old foot for a bionic one. It's a glimpse into the future, as prosthetic technology advances to a point where artificial limbs can sometimes trump natural ones. And it's also a story about what happens when you do whatever it takes to get the life you really want.