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Hume was born with proximal femoral focal deficiency (PFFD), meaning he is missing his femur bone and hip socket. He was adopted from Ukraine at just a year and a half, and when his parents ...

"I was born with a rare birth defect called PFFD [Proximal Femoral Focal Deficiency] and they decided to amputate my leg when I was 4 years old above the knee," she said. Whitaker has never let ...

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Eyers was born with proximal femoral focal deficiency (PFFD), a condition that affected his hip, knee and femur, and for many years he dealt with his disability by not talking about it.

Jack, you were born with proximal femoral focal deficiency (PFFD) in your right leg. How did that change your life? "It was a deficiency of my femur, which meant that my knee joint and my hip ...

Ollie has Proximal Femoral Focal Deficiency (PFFD), a congenital condition that he said, "basically means that I don't have a hip and I'm also missing one of the bones in the lower part of my leg".

Hell, it was healing for me as an adult. Elle was born with proximal femoral focal deficiency, a birth defect of the femur (or thigh bone) where the upper part of the bone is "either malformed or ...

It all started when she was born with proximal femoral focal deficiency and fibular hemimelia. Basically, she was born without a fibula. "When I was born, they were like, 'Take your baby home.