John Sarcona was at a baseball game when his mother Joanne found the bloodied T-shirts in his laundry hamper. His bedding was bloody too, and she knew something had gone terribly wrong. "I told myself ...

His operation was so drastic that it changed his body's center of gravity. "Those first steps, leaning up against the bed, I felt like I was in a new body," John said. "It's a pretty crazy feeling and ...