Jingle Luis has never walked on the bottoms of her feet. The teen underwent surgery for her conditi

HEADLINE: Girl with upside-down feet gets help --------------------------------------- CAPTION: Jingle Luis has never walked on the bottoms of her feet. The teen underwent surgery for her condition on Thursday. Follow-up treatment will consist of slowly rotating her feet until she can walk normally. (May 1) ---------------------------------------- [Notes:ANCHOR VOICE] NB. This is a voiceover transcript, not a full shotlist: NATS) "ex-ray" IT'S A SURGERY DOCTORS AT MONTEFIORE HOSPITAL IN NEW YORK HAVE NEVER PERFORMED BEFORE...TRYING TO STRAIGHTEN OUT A SPINA BIFIDA PATIENT'S SEVERELY DEFORMED FEET..... (NATS) JINGLE LUIS' CLUBBED FEET HAVE PREVENTED THE FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD FILIPINO GIRL FROM EVER WALKING....NOW AFTER TRAVELLING MORE THAN SEVEN THOUSAND MILES FROM HER HOME IN THE PHILLIPINES....DOCTORS IN NEW YORK PLAN TO GIVE HER THE FOUNDATION SHE NEEDS TO WALK (NATS)"drill" WITH A LOT OF TINKERING AND DRILLING DOCTORS ATTACH A DEVICE THAT WILL SLOWLY HELP STRETCH OUT JINGLE'S FEET..... (SOT DR.TERRY AMARAL/ PEDIATRIC ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER/ OPERATED ON JINGLE) "we're essentially putting in a scaffolding to curve the foot" "and we're gonna slowly bring her foot straight bring her up then she'll be able to walk" AS INTIMIDATING AS IT LOOKS, SURPRISINGLY JINGLE WILL FEEL LITTLE PAIN FROM THE FOUR POUND SURGICAL LEG SUPPORTS....JUST A LITTLE SORENESS (SOT DR. RANDALL OWEN/ SURGEON) within a few days she will very very little sensory awareness of the device, probably wont need much pain medication after the first couple days (SOT TERRY AMARAL/ PEDIATRIC ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON) AFTER TWO HOURS OF SURGERY JINGLE EMERGES...THE OPERATION IS A SUCCESS....WITH TEARS IN HER EYES JASMINE LUIS LOOKS AT HER DAUGHTER WITH KIND OF CONCERN ONLY A MOTHER CAN FEEL (SOT JASMINE LEWIS/MOTHER) "I am happy, and I hope my child my daughter Jingle will walk and she walk around normally" AND YOUNG JINGLE HAS SOME PLANS OF HER OWN ONCE SHE STARTS TO WALK (SOT JASMINE LEWIS/MOTHER) "when my feet are (unknown word) I will wear shoes uh high heels!" AND WHAT GIRL WOULDN'T WANT A NICE PAIR OF HIGH HEELS, BUT MOM WANTS TO HER TAKE IT ONE STEP AT A TIME (STANDUP BONNY) "15-year-old Jingle Luis will have to learn to walk on her own for the first time....that wont be easy...doctors estimate it will take up three to four months for her to learn to walk....after she's comfortable on her own two feet, Jingle and her mother will return home to the Phillipines....Bonny Ghosh the Associated Press New York." You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/bea7c9ae27f51956f8b17a41d8e4b1cf Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork