In 2005 , Ellie May Challis lost all of her limbs to meningitis . In 2009 , she ’s become the youngest person ever fitted with carbon fiber legs .
Her original prostheses never fit out perfectly , causing her pain and great difficulty when take the air . So , with the financial aid of their community of interests , Ellie May ’s parents take her to Dorset Orthopaedic where Doctor contrive an superfluous small pair of C fiber legs — the same type of prostheses used byOlympic sprinters — costing about $ 15,000 .
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She ’ll need a new pair of legs every two years as she grow up .
But while doctors were originally worried that she ’d have a tough time balancing on her new tree branch , Ellie May is moving doubly as fast as she did before . And as one specialiser put it , “ Within second of having them on , she was off . It will convert her life . ” [ EchoviaNeatorama ]
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