CAN YOU TELL US A BIT ABOUT FRANKIE?
Three-year-old Frankie started with us in September. As the result of a rare condition called neurofibromatosis, Frankie has had her lower left leg amputated. I noticed very early on that she really gravitated towards the dolls in the nursery, but none of them looked like her, which was really sad. I went home and spoke to my husband and we decided to see if we could find a doll for her. We looked online for dolls with prosthetic legs, or ways of modifying them, but we couldn’t find anything. Hospitals and universities all said they had faced the same problem.
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