A man diagnosed with bone cancer after a fall had his leg amputated - and his foot sewed on backwards. <br /><br />Ibrahim Abdulrauf, then 14, took a minor tumble while playing football.<br /><br />He didn't think much of it but the next day he woke up in pain and was unable to walk. <br /><br />After a trip to A&E at Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham, West Midlands, he was diagnosed with a bone infection. <br /><br />Ibrahim was prescribed antibiotics and sent home after six weeks in hospital. <br /><br />As the pain continued he was sent to the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham where he was eventually diagnosed with bone cancer.<br /><br />Doctors advised Ibrahim to get a Rotationplasty, a rare operation in which the middle part of the leg is removed and the bottom is sewn on backwards.<br /><br />Rotationplasty procedures are used because the patient retains the use of their foot, which helps them walk in their prosthesis. <br /><br />The foot being backwards allows the patient to use their ankle joint to move their leg in the same way as non-amputees would use their knee. <br /><br />Without the operation, Ibrahim's cancer was at risk of spreading. <br /><br />Ibrahim, 22, said: "I couldn't imagine seeing myself with a backwards foot. I was thinking that it was like Frankenstein.<br /><br />"After surgery I remember waking up completely naked. I didn't know if they'd done the surgery or not. <br /><br />"I lifted the bedsheet and I couldn't believe what I was seeing.<br /><br />"I had a leg when I went to sleep and I woke up and my foot was backwards. <br /><br />''The leg was bandaged but the foot was visible at the bottom."<br /><br />In 2015, Ibrahim was playing football with his brother when he fell after a harsh tackle.<br /><br />After the fall, he felt discomfort but went to bed that night expecting to feel better in the morning. <br /><br />When he woke up the following day, things had taken a turn. He was in agony and unable to walk.<br /><br />Ibrahim said: "When I got up the next morning I collapsed to the ground.<br /><br />''I had an electrocuting pain in my leg and I couldn't put any weight on it at all.<br /><br />"I bum-shuffled down the stairs and told my mum that my leg hurt. <br /><br />''She shouted at me because she thought I was making excuses so I could miss school."<br /><br />Ibrahim eventually convinced his mum to take him to A&E, where doctors diagnosed him with a bone infection.<br /><br />He stayed in hospital for six weeks where he was given antibiotics to treat the infection.<br /><br />Ibrahim stayed home for three weeks before going back to hospital as the antibiotics weren't working.<br /><br />He said: "I wasn't getting any better. My pain was getting worse and I got a big lump on my leg. They thought I had a boil or a cyst."<br /><br />Ibrahim was referred to the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham, where he was eventually diagnosed with bone cancer.<br /><br />He went on to have chemotherapy for six months before doctors decided to operate and perform a Rotationplasty. <br /><br />After the operation, he went through another five months of chemotherapy treatment.<br /><br />Ibrahim, a chemistry student at South and City College, said: "I thought I was going to die. <br /><br />''I was imagining myself dead and my parents at my funeral."
