The Brief
- A Bradenton teen is recovering from a nearly 17-hour surgery where doctors at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital amputated her left leg.
- When Jasmine Ramirez was two-years-old, her family noticed her left leg was growing much faster than her right leg.
- Ramirez’s family said doctors told them her condition is so rare, they don’t have an official name for it.
St. Petersburg, Fla. – A Bradenton teen is recovering from a nearly 17-hour surgery where doctors at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg amputated her left leg.
“She’s getting back to her normal self now,” Anastashia Ramirez said of her 14-year-old sister, Jasmine Ramirez. “But it is going to be quite an adjustment for her, coming into this new chapter of her life.”
The backstory:
When Jasmine was two-years-old, her family noticed her left leg was growing much faster than her right leg. “As her sister — and my other siblings that lived in that house — we knew it wasn’t normal, but we always tried to treat Jasmine as if she was a normal kid,” Anastashia Ramirez told FOX 13. …