Royal news : Amy Purdy Shows Off Her 'Real Legs' After 'Challenging' Three Weeks in Hospital Amid H

Paralympian Amy Purdy is speaking out amid her health crisis.  The 39-year-old snowboarding champion, who experienced bacterial meningitis and lost her legs below the knees when she was 19 years old, was diagnosed in February with a blood clot. The diagnosis left her stuck between keeping her transplanted kidney or the remainder of one of her legs. Get push notifications with news, features and more. Follow Following You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications.  After weeks of multiple surgeries to try to correct the problem without losing either body part, the snowboarding champion shared a photo of herself in the hopsital — sharing a photo of her “real” legs on social media for the first time.  “I don’t think I have ever shown my ‘real’ legs on social before but I figure this is going to be me for a while so here I am,” Purdy wrote on Monday. “The only difference from this photo & today is that today finally afterweeks I got to go home!”  “Also, see that scar on my leg? That’s from my surgery 19 years ago,” she revealed. “It usually looks like a smiley face but because of all the swelling from this weeks surgeries it has a frown.”  “The lastweeks have been some of the most challenging of my life emotionally & physically,” Purdy shared. “It’s tested me in every way possible & all I can do right now is allow my body to heal, meditate on the possibilities & take things day by day. I really am grateful for all of your love & support everyone. It’s meant the world to me & I want to be as authentic as I can with my journey in order to help someone else’s on theirs.”  “Life isn’t always easy & things don’t always make sense but I believe that we are on this earth to learn, grow & be of service,” she continued. “To leave this place better then we found it is something we all have the ability to do no matter what our circumstances. But for now… my job is to be in the moment, have patience & heal. Love you all.”  In February, after experiencing pain in her left leg, doctors discovered what Purdy thought was a problem with her prosthetic was actually a “massive” blood clot stretching from her hip to the bottom of her left leg.  “I went from snowboarding 6 hours a day, working out & traveling the world to what I thought was just a simple mechanical issue with my left leg,” she wrote in a Facebook post. “When I entered the hospital this weekend with my leg cramping we found out that it’s a much bigger problem [than] that.”  The clot likely developed due to how often she uses her prosthetics during the day, which can sometimes amount to 12 to 18 hours at a time.  “The diagnoses came yesterday & knocked my family & I to the floor physically, mentally & emotionally,” Purdy continued. “We believe the clot came from the pressure of my prosthetic pressing behind my knee where many arteries lie.”  According to Purdy, her previous kidney transplant and an allergy to shellfish initially kept doctors from going