By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter

Aimee Copeland helped give Katie Couric's new talk show an impressive debut week when she proudly walked onto the show's set for the second episode, despite having lost both her hands, left leg and right foot to a flesh-eating disease.

The brave 24-year-old got a standing ovation as she greeted the host of the nationally syndicated show Katie on Tuesday with the help of a prosthetic foot and a walker.

"That felt pretty good," Aimee told Couric. "It was awesome. It felt so good after just sitting or lying down for so long. You take for granted how wonderful it is just to look people in the eyes!"

As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, after falling into the murky Little Tallapoosa River in Georgia from a homemade zip line on May 1, Aimee suffered a deep gash in her calf and despite it being cleaned and closed with 22 staples, bacteria burrowed deep into the wound and caused necrotizing fasciitis, a usually fatal infection, forcing doctors to perform the extreme amputations.

When asked by Katie if there was any point on her long road to recovery she "ever felt like, 'I can't do this, I just want to die'…?" She replied firmly, "No. That was never really an option to me. 

"I love life. It's a beautiful thing," she laughed. "Even more so now. It's something that I don't take for granted any more. How beautiful it is, seeing a sunrise, the ocean, animals.

"Senses are so deepened," Copeland explained. "Everything smells better. Everything is more vibrant, more beautiful."

The deeply moved talk show host revealed that she was worried be