It's been a long hard road to recovery for three-year-old Choity, but this child from a remote village in Bangladesh is now ready to begin her life again.
She was born with vision problems and a parasitic twin, her condition a great shock for her mother, Shima.
"Choity's doctor say it was a twin baby. She say it had been twin baby, but the other one has gone. And this baby has one (of the twin's) leg that's still joined," she said.
The condition affected just the lower half of her body, meaning she had a third leg protruding from her backside, an extra digestive tract, a second set or reproductive organs and deformities of the groin that made it impossible for her expel waste.
She had emergency surgery shortly after birth in Dhaka hospital, to remove part of the leg and create an opening to allow her to digest food.
Shima is the mother of Choity Source: SBS
But doctors in Bangladesh could do little else to reconstruct Choity's body.
In 2015 her case was brought to the attention of Atom Rahman, a businessman who was also involved in the efforts to save conjoined twins Krishna and Trishna.
Through the Children First Foundation, Choity and her mother were brought to Australia in July last year.
Monash Children's Hospital Associate Professor Chris Kimber said on first examination, surgeons found the situation was worse than they'd imagined.
"We were left with a stump of a leg, two rectums, two vaginas and a very disordered perineum with a large left over leg in the middle," he said.
Associate Professor Kimber collaborated with experts from across the globe, then last November, he began the marathon surgery that would change her life.
Assoc Prof Chris Kimber Source: SBS
"We weren't sure what would happen but when we closed her bag previously from her bowel, she's now able to walk and run and go to the toilet and this will make a big difference to life back in Bangladesh," he said.
After months of healing and rehabilitation, Choity is ready to go home.
Marina Te-Maro, from the Children First Foundation that funded her journey, said Choity and her mother can't wait to get back to Bangladesh.
"It's very hard for the families to be apart from their own home, their culture and their own families, so we know Shima is very much looking forward to getting back to her husband," she said.
Doctors in Australia will need to see her again once she hits her teens, but they believe Choity will have normal bowel function and will even retain the ability to have children.
Her mother is grateful to have little girl's life back.
"I thank you for everything, thank you Children's First Foundation, thank you Monash Hospital, thank you Dr Chris Kimber team," she said.
