A 4-year-old boy named Giulio is all smiles after he received a brand new bionic prosthetic arm from his doctors in Palestrina, Italy.
Giulio was born with an underdeveloped arm that ends just below his elbow. His mother, Samuela, said that ultrasounds during her pregnancy failed to detect Giulio’s birth defect.
“When these things happen you either let them get to you and live unhappily, or you stand up and fight and life becomes even more beautiful than before,” she told Caters News. “When Giulio was born, his brother Leonardo was home waiting for us, and that’s what gave us the strength to get back and start fighting to make Giulio’s life a normal and happy one.”
And Samuela and her husband Mossimo did just that! Giulio lives a completely normal life and has been wearing a prosthetic arm since he was only a few months old, however, it wasn’t practical and was really only there for aesthetic purposes. That all changed after the young boy received his brand new bionic arm, which can be moved through electrical signals.
“When Giulio was younger, he had a fake arm which he couldn’t do anything with, Samuela continued.” Early on we decided to call the arm ‘Energy,’ a name that his brother Leonardo picked after a cartoon he had watched. It just felt nicer than telling him to go get his prosthetic arm. The name stuck and now even doctors at the clinic call it ‘Energy.’”
Samuela said, “For many this could look like a simple mechanical movement, but for someone who doesn’t have a hand, this is a miracle.”