I WOKE & MY LEG WAS GONE

SHE was excited about going under the knife – it meant she’d finally be free of the crippling pain that had plagued her for months. Her life would go back to normal – she’d be able to wear high heels again, go horse-riding and complete the school year. But when Nontobeko Shongwe from Mpumalanga woke up from surgery at Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria, she couldn’t feel her leg.

“At first, I didn’t think anything of it. I thought it must be the medication and pain that was making me not feel it,” she tells YOU.

“I woke up a short while later and still couldn’t