On the day Robby Powers was born, his doctors faced a terrible realization: to save this baby's life they would have to amputate his left leg.
Amputate or die.
"My leg was a lump of dead tissue, so the doctors had to cut mom open," Powers said.
The reason for Powers' amputation was a blood clot, which formed in his left leg in utero. He spent the first two months of his life in the hospital. At the time, he wasn't breathing or urinating properly, he said — a rough start for a baby.
In fact, he still deals with complications from his early childhood.