ms. amazing pageant, she created it to help girls and women with disabilities realize their potential. >> and 8-year-old anna chung- >> wong? >> what is it? >> choung. where's my sorry button? michael, let's start with you. you've got your t-shirt on that says "mikey's run." when you were younger, 8 years old, you had an illness and lost some of your limbs. tell us about what happened. >> when i was about 8 years old, like you said, i have an immune disease called cdd, i don't know the full name, dirt gets in my bloodstream, oxygen and blood stops flowing through my body. what happened is i had dirt under my finger nail, had a bug bite, started scratching it and the dirt got into it and the blood stopped flowing to my hands and feet and they turned black. after seven weeks in the hospital i was released. and a month later they had to amputate my hands and feet because they were no longer working. >> wow. you got prosthetics -- >> never heard of that. very rare, isn't it? >> my brother, harris, has it, too. they already knew about it for him. it happened to me first, so they were able to stop it. >> we should point