With the coronavirus pandemic and so many major news events this year, Christmas will look and feel different for so many Canadians.In July, 24-year-old Justin Fernandes nearly lost his life after being hit by a motorcycle while walking home from work in Mississauga.
However, he just received the ultimate and perhaps the most personal of Christmas gifts that recognizes his traumatic experience: his severed leg, carefully preserved by a Toronto museum.“It’s so rare and uncommon and strange that many taxidermists straight up said no when I asked, so it was a long process,” Fernandes told Global News on Thursday.“I pretty much started this whole process five months ago and it took this long to get it all cleared for me to be here with it.” .