Victor once slipped very badly on the street and fell on some kind of iron thing that pierced his knee. The pain was hellish. Passersby called him an ambulance. The doctors brought him to the hospital, they needed to do something quickly. The kneecap was shattered, as was the entire tibia. they installed Ilizarov's device and inserted a titanium plate. the operation lasted several hours.

Victor had to walk on crutches for several months with this terrible iron thing on his leg. His knee hurt terribly. when he came to the hospital to remove the device, Dr. May told him that the knee was infected from the inside and there was a fairly extensive inflammatory process. the bones were not saved