No Stopping Five-Year-Old Girl with New Legs

Wow. When you see this video and see this British girl walking fast, it will move you. It also fills me with such awe to see Oscar 'Blade Runner' Pistorius (a paralympian) sprinting around the track. Here is the background:

Five-year-old Ellie Challis is facing life with an extra spring in her step. She has become the youngest person in the world to be fitted with flex-run feet

Ellie, who lost her hands and lower legs to meningitis as a toddler, had spent the last two years walking on conventional prosthetic limbs. But she complained that she struggled to keep up with her twin sister Sophie.

Her parents Paul and Lisa contacted the world-renowned prosthetic limb centre Dorset Orthopaedic, and managing director Bob Watts agreed to make a junior version of the carbon-fibre blades.

Mr Watts said: 'We were worried that she wouldn't be able to balance properly on them, but she has made amazing progress.

Mr Challis, 45, said: 'Ellie can walk twice as fast on these new legs - it really is amazing to see. She is so full of determination.'

The legs cost £10,000 for a pair and will need to be replaced every two years. Mr Watts added: 'We didn't know if it would be possible to make some small enough.

'But now Ellie is the youngest in the world to have such legs - and there is no holding her back.'

> Read More about Ellie at the Daily Mail

My favorite reader comment: "God bless her. Something to think of the next time you are complaining of aches and pains or your lot in life."

Watch the CNN video & see Ellie for yourself: