In her surgery scrubs, and with her mother by her side, little Choity Khatun was typically bubbly in the minutes before entering theater for what could be life-changing surgery.
The Bangladeshi-born toddler and her 22-year-old mother have spent the past three months living at a farm north of Melbourne owned by the Children First Foundation
While outwardly healthy, the toddler has a complex diagnosis.
She was born with a third leg -- partially removed in a hospital in Bangladesh shortly after birth -- and lives with two colostomies and a dysfunctional renal anatomy.
And, she is vision-impaired.
The head of surgery at Monash Children's Hospital, Associate Professor Chris Kimber, spent two months consulting experts from around the world to plan her surgery.
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