In her mid-40s Isabella Fels decided that her worn out maligned left foot had no other option but to be reconstructed. She had exhausted all possibilities including regular physiotherapy, hydrotherapy, acupuncture, painkillers and even top chiropractors in Melbourne funded by her anxious father.
It put her out of action for nearly three months as she had to do a complete lifestyle reshuffle, first with surgery, rehabilitation and finally a psychiatric hospital. Having obsessive compulsive disorder and schizophrenia did test her many times. But she said: “it was the best thing she ever did”.