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Zachary David Gianna

Shriners Children’s Portland Shriners Children’s Salt Lake City Shriners Children’s Southern California

Zachary, 17, lives in Bend, Oregon. David, 17, is from Sandy, Utah. He Gianna, 14, is from Laguna Niguel,
A hard-working, active teen, Zachary loves snowboarding and swimming, California. Gianna competes in soccer,
has a construction job and loves to attends high school and drives a swimming, softball and fencing, and
skate, box and mountain bike. He manual transmission vehicle, all while she has plans to play on the water polo
and his friend are even starting a new wearing shorts and showing off his and tennis teams at her high school.
scuba diving business. awesome prosthetic leg. Gianna is also a creative artist and is
enrolled in a drawing course at school.
When he was 6 months old, Zachary When David was 9, he was diagnosed
was diagnosed with proximal femoral with osteosarcoma (bone cancer). The Before Gianna was born, she was
focal deficiency, an orthopedic cancer treatment was successful, diagnosed with proximal femoral
condition causing his left leg to be but the treatments affected his focal deficiency (PFFD) during a
shorter than the right and requiring left femur, knee and surrounding routine ultrasound. PFFD is a rare
multiple surgeries and physical muscle. David’s parents brought him condition that causes a deformed or
therapy. Zachary receives custom to Shriners Children’s Salt Lake City a completely missing femur. Gianna
prosthetics from the Portland for orthopedic specialty care, where was born without the femur in her left
hospital’s Pediatric Orthotics and surgeons performed an uncommon leg, as well as other limb deficiencies
Prosthetic Services. As a lifelong procedure called rotationplasty. The and hip malformations. She first
Shriners Children’s patient, Zachary surgery included removing a portion visited Shriners Children’s when she
has had the opportunity to form close of his upper leg, replacing it with was 3 months old. She received her
friendships with the doctors, nurses the unaffected portion of the lower first prosthetic at 9 months, and at 16
and other caregivers. leg and rotating that portion 180 months she had an above-the-knee
degrees. David received his first amputation of her left leg. Within a
prosthetic leg, which was designed few short weeks, Gianna took her
and built at Shriners Children’s, and first steps, and she has been off and
extensive physical therapy in 2015. running ever since.
He returns annually for checkups and
a new prosthetic.

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