Amillian, also known as Mimi, is 7 years old and was surprised with a special doll that looks just like her last Friday.
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A 9-year-old boy named Rylan from Wisconsin helped raise the money for Mimi's doll as part of his birthday fundraiser.
The doll, from the organization A Doll Like Me, mirrors Mimi's limb differences and has the same hair color, skin tone and style. She has named her Precious.
Mimi experienced a fever and arm pain in November 2017. Days after the pain started, she was rushed to the hospital to be treated for septic shock and a flesh-eating disease due to Group A Streptococcus.
She suffered multi-organ failure and underwent nearly a dozen procedures before doctors saved her life by amputating her left arm.
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She had to undergo months of rehabilitation and therapy at Blythedale Children's Hospital, but learned how to walk, self-care skills, tie her shoes, play basketball and more -- all with one arm.
Mimi and her mother recently traveled to Middletown, New York, where she was fitted for a new prosthetic arm.
Mimi will enter second grade in the fall at the hospital's on-site school, Mt. Pleasant Blythedale School.
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