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Lucy Laing

Schoolboy's brave fightback with biopic arm after losing limbs to meningitis

This is the brave lad who said a heartbreaking goodbye to his hands just moments before they were amputated.

Luke Mortimer, nine, nearly died from meningitis and lost his arms and legs because of the disease.

Now – after 23 ops – he has learned to walk again on prosthetic limbs and has been given prosthetic hands too.

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