Birralee Palframan-Ingram was just like any other 11-year-old girl.
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The talented gymnast enjoyed participating in swimming lessons, playing at the park with her cousins after school and had big dreams of becoming a dancer.
But an accident in early September has changed her life as she knows it.
Birralee was riding a motorbike at Berry Jerry when a man on a quad bike struck the vehicle she was on.
Birralee was thrown from the bike and pinned underneath it.
The rider of the other bike fled the scene.
“I think that hurt me the most, he just took off,” Birralee’s sister, Krystal Ingram, said.
“He didn’t stay around and help and that really upsets me.”
Friends and family took Birralee to Wagga Base Hospital, where she had surgery for a shattered femur.
Birralee lost all feeling in her foot and lower leg and she was flown to Sydney when doctors in Wagga thought she had problems with her kidney function.
Blood circulation had ceased to her lower leg and a team of surgeons and doctors brainstormed over her best options.
“After they came to terms that the cells were dying, they looked at ways of saving her leg,” Miss Ingram said.
“They said there was nothing they could do.
“She would have been worse off if she kept her leg.”
Birralee has been in Sydney ever since her right leg was amputated in October.
She has been having physiotherapy and learning to walk with crutches.
Tolland Public School, where Birralee attended before her accident, have sent her homework, a card from students and Coles vouchers for her mother to use.
Birralee is expected to be discharged from hospital on Friday and will be back in Wagga on Saturday.
Miss Ingram said her sister has expressed some concern that she might not be able to do ‘normal things’ like wear high heels.
Birralee will return to Sydney in January to be fitted for a prosthetic leg.
To help the family with ongoing medical and living costs, visit www.gofundme.com/qj7y7zv4.