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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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Yeah, was going to say the same thing. Not only is it possible but you can put it on backwards which gives you a far more useful limb than a thigh with no knee joint at all.
Looks a bit weird obviously but who cares? Better to have use of your leg than worry about people being mean to you.
Edit: now that's a new page fail. Really need a bit of context here.
frankenbike
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.