Woman Suffers Knee Fracture After Seating On Toilet

A woman from England is warning others about a dangerous diagnosis after her knee bones fractured while sitting on the toilet.

Bethany Eason, 26, started experiencing some knee pain when she was 19 years old and visited a doctor who gave her an X-ray and referred her to a physical therapist.

She claimed the doctor told her that there was “something there” after getting the X-ray but wasn’t sure what it was, South West News Service reported. But one day, in February 2017, she was especially in agony walking up the stairs to get to her bedroom.

She had come home from college one day and, noticing her knee was sore, stopped in the bathroom to take a rest on the toilet seat, and when she did, her knee bones fractured, as a result of a giant cell tumor in her knee.

“It just shattered,” Eason told SWNS of her “one-in-a-million” happening. I felt this immense pain and it was almost like a pop, it was really traumatic.”

The tumor had weakened the bones in her knee as well as the soft tissue surrounding it.  Eason’s partner called an ambulance, and she was rushed off to the hospital, where she later learned that she would have to undergo both a knee and thigh bone replacement as a result of the tumor.

“I was heartbroken — I used to dance, run and swim and thought I would never be able to do those things again,” Eason told SWNS of the surgery. 

“At that moment in time, you don’t see a way out — I was told when I had surgery that 99% of patients wouldn’t have full mobility after surgery.” Doctors told her that she would have to re-learn how to walk and that she may never wear heels again.

But Eason defied the odds and was able to regain full mobility. “I said, ‘Well, 1% can and I can be that 1% and prove you wrong,’ and I did,” Eason said. She spent seven weeks in intense physical therapy and worked on strengthening her new leg for a year through home exercises, and even ended up back in a pair of heels.

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