“She doesn’t see herself as being different,” mom Sharon Catt told the BBC about her 9-year-old daughter Maisie, who is a double amputee. Maisie is also a fierce taekwondo competitor. “She’s just Maisie who puts her legs on in the morning.”
After a severe bout of meningitis at just 5 months of age, Maisie, who lives near Huddersfield in the North of England, had to have her both of her legs amputated at 10 months due to septicemia. Not having ever known what it’s like to walk on her own two feet has never slowed Maisie down. “Whatever she wants to do, if she sets her mind to it, she'll do it,” Sharon says. “There’s no stopping Maisie.”
