Nguyen Duy Hai from Da Lat city, who has had his right leg tumor removed, is practicing walking by using a mobile walker for disabled people twice a day at Ho Chi Minh City-based FV hospital.
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Over the past two weeks, the 32-year-old patient is instructed by 2 physical therapists to exercise his left leg that he didn’t use for the last four years.
Hai can walk 15 meters if he uses a mobile walker. FVH’s doctors have considered Hai’s ability to walk as a miraculous recovery.
Dr. Phan Van Thai, a FVH’s surgeon, said Hai now can be discharged from hospital with improvement in his health condition.
However, Hai will need to stay in the hospital for one more month to undergo a skin graft surgery to replace the lost skins on his wounds, Thai added.
As the fourth son of a 5-children family, Hai was born a normal child until his limbs got weakened and unable to stand.
At 4, his right leg showed abnormal signs of growing much faster than the other one.
He left school at 11 when his deformity was difficult to cope with.
The tumor weighed up to 25 kg when he was 17, prompting his family to ask Lam Dong General Hospital to amputate the right limb.
At the time, doctors still couldn’t diagnose the cause and the tumor suffered from cracked skin and necrosis.
He is practicing walking on his left leg with assistance from two physical therapists at FVH. Photo by Quynh Trung
However, since 2001, the amputated leg developed a tumor again, which kept growing bigger until it reached 1m in diameter and 80 kg in weight.
Well-known American surgeon McKay McKinnon successfully removed his massive tumor after a grueling 12-hour long surgery at HCMC-based FV hospital on January 5, 2012.
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