Meet the truly inspirational 8-year-old quadruple amputee

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Two brothers who have no connection to Boston or any of the bombing victims are now trying to raise $1million for the 10 people who lost a limb in the attacks, because that is something they can relate to.

Michael Stolzenberg was only 8-years-old when an abdominal infection led to a medically induced coma and a quadruple amputation when the infection spread.

Now Michael's older brother Harris will run the 2014 Boston Marathon and together they hope to raise money to help pay for prosthetics for the 14 people who lost all or part of a limb in last week's bombing.



Learning from their experience: Harris Stolzenberg (right) is going to run next year's Boston Marathon in an effort to raise money for amputees. His brother Michael (left) lost all four limbs due to an infection








Heartbreaking: Michael, now 13, suffered an abdominal infection that led to a coma and four amputations when he was only 8-years-old but now he has prosthetics and can play sports

'After the Boston Marathon bombings, we wanted to do something to help because there are going to be a lot of new amputees, and just like after our community rallied around Michael, we wanted to do something to help them,' Harris told The Sun Sentinel.

Harris said that their friends and family helped them raise the money to pay for the four prosthetics that Michael needed following the unexpected amputations.

'His mental fortitude carried him through his challenges, but he couldn’t have done it without the overwhelming support of our community,' Harris wrote of his younger brother.





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'The prostheses he needed cost thousands of dollars, which we wouldn't have been able to afford without that support.'

Now they hope to do the same for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, both in motivation and in actual funds through ‘Mikey’s Run’.

Michael, now 13-years-old, said that the new amputees are likely in a state of shock.



Support: Harris said that they needed the help of their community following Michael's operations, and now they want to 'pay it forward' to Boston as he is headed up to MIT for college this fall








Inspiring: Harris, a star athlete (left), said that his brother's (right) fortitude was something that he admired

'You lose something you'll never get back and yet, you'll still be okay but you don't know that yet,' he said.

'People are scared of different sometimes- they don't want to change something that's already good.'

The quadruple amputee has been able to continue to thrive on the lacrosse field, playing competitively at school.



Injured: There were 14 people who lost all or part of a limb in the Boston Marathon bombing

Athleticism apparently runs in the family as Harris, who is a senior at Pine Crest High school and will head up to Boston when he graduates as he has been accepted into MIT.

As of Tuesday night, they had raised more than $10,400, meaning that they have collected one per cent of their intended goal.

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