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a very odd injury to make up
That's why it's in a comedy show. It would be practically impossible to do that in real life, because nothing would join up. You might be able to figure out a plumbing diagram to keep the foot alive, but it would be a useless attachment and get in the way of a useful prosthesis.
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As it turns out I personally know someone who lost both legs from above the knee. Doctors reattached both of her feet backwards so as to use the ankle joints as knee replacements and a place to hang her prosthetic lower legs from. I almost blacked out the first time I saw them.
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Hank's father Cotton has no shins
He has short shins. I'm assuming his shattered tibiae and fibulae healed without the benefit of traction, so they are just shorter than they were before the injury.
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But my question is this: In the cartoon King of the Hill, Hank's father Cotton has no shins, his feet having been grafted to his knees after being shot in WWII. Is there any real-life case of this having happened? It seems like a very odd injury to make up.