WATCH: Kyle Nhlapo still stands tall despite leg amputation
FOURWAYS – After battling osteosarcoma and losing his left leg to amputation, Kyle Nhlapo needs help to afford his treatment so that he can move forward to a bright future.
In December 2017, his knee still hurt after a small knock from weeks earlier. In January last year, he was diagnosed with cancer and in April this year his entire left leg was amputated.
But Kyle Nhlapo believes he’s been given a second chance and wants to use it to make a difference.
Nhlapo is 20 years old and matriculated from Fourways High School in 2016. He was studying information technology and looking forward to learning coding in his second year of tertiary education when he got the worst news of his life: Osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, had developed in his left leg.
Nhlapo is appealing to the community to help him and his family cover the costs for his medical treatment so he can move forward with his life.
“In November 2017, I was getting into a taxi and I bumped my knee. By December, I was still in so much pain and by January [2018], I began limping,” he told the Fourways Review. “First they took an x-ray, and eventually the results of the biopsy came back and it was cancerous.”
His treatment began last year March. Beginning with chemotherapy, Nhlapo and his mom Beulah also tried alternative treatment, but nothing worked to stop the very aggressive form of cancer.
On 25 April this year, a surgeon removed his left leg to save his life. “They dislocated my hip and removed from there,” Nhlapo explained.
Read the full story on the front page of the Fourways Review.
