Girl becomes youngest fitted with specially-designed prothetic limbs

941AM GMT twenty-three March 2010

Olivia Story was only dual years old when she was struck down with meningococcal meningitis and lost both limbs subsequent the knee and an arm to the lethal disease.

But right away medics have organized for her to have one-of-a-kind prosthetic limbs finished with special arched feet.

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Her mother, Kim Brown, 29, pronounced "It"s a genuine Cinderella story, true out of the pages of a fairytale.

"My small lady can right away go to parties and dance in her sparkly heels, only similar to all her friends."

Olivia from Carlisle, Cumbria, scarcely died when she was struck down by the lethal brain bug in Jul 2006.

Somehow she managed to quarrel off the disease but the septicaemia had scorched her small body, definition doctors had no preference but to amputate.

Over time Olivia began to get used to wearing normal flat-footed fake limbs, gaining certainty and guidance to travel all over again.

But as the years upheld and Olivia and her friends proposed to get older, her playmates began to wear sparkly "Princess" heels at parties.

Normally amputees would have to wait for to be an adult to wear legs permitting them to wear high-heeled shoes, but prosthetic experts motionless to have a special span only for Olivia.

Mrs Brown pronounced "I never thought I would see the day when she would wear high heels and dance at a party.

"Whenever she went to all her friends" parties all of the alternative girls would wear these, pinkish sparkly high heels.

"She asked if she could have a span and we never wish to discuss it her that anything is out of her reach, so we"d only say, might be one day.

"We spoke to the prosthetist at Cumberland Infirmary and they pronounced they might be means to do something for her.

"You can"t buy prosthetic legs created to fit high heels in a child"s size, but at that time they didn"t know what they were going to do.

"Because they are all engineers in the seminar and all of their work is so perplexing they were the preferred people to work out how it could be done.

"They asked me to move in the boots she longed for and they forged down an adult feet to fit them.

"This is the initial time any one has ever finished this for a child, it took utterly a couple of months prior to they were ready but we hadn"t told Olivia since we didn"t wish to get her hopes up in box it wasn"t possible.

"On the day she went to the prong centre we only told her that there was a big warn watchful for her - when she got them, she was gay and her face only illuminated up.

"I think in her heart of hearts she never believed she would ever be means to wear high heels.

"She looked similar to a flattering princess, she was such a happy small lady that day.

"The subsequent time she was invited to a celebration she asked if she could wear her high heels and we finished certain she was ready to go all in pinkish to match.

"At the party, dual of friends had the unequivocally same boots so she was unequivocally gratified that she was the same as them and not left out anymore.

"We never wish her to feel different. She doesn"t wish to feel different, and because should she? That"s patently what the staff at the sanatorium could conclude too. They longed for her to be the same as each alternative child."