What a difference a year makes. This is especially true for Ornichleel “Leel” Ulysse, who, one year ago this month, became one of the 1,000-plus people who had one or more limbs amputated as a result of the devastating earthquake that hit Port au Prince, Haiti, in January 2010. The 11-year-old Haitian girl suffered a transtibial amputation after one of the stone block walls of her house collapsed on her and crushed her right foot. This past May, Ulysse traveled to the United States, where she was fit with a custom-designed prosthetic leg and learned to walk again.
