Two years ago, the story of a little Briton, Noah Wall, surprised the whole world.
The boy was born practically without a brain - the brain substance in his skull was, according to doctors, only 2%.
This rare anomaly was identified at an early stage of pregnancy and obstetricians repeatedly urged Noah's parents Shelley and Rob Wall to have an abortion.
However, they refused, although it was very difficult for them. Doctors frightened them with the fact that even if the child survived, he would be a severe mental and physical handicap, that is, a "vegetable".
When Noah was born, everything seemed to go according to the doctors' worst forecasts. In addition to the lack of a brain, the baby was also partially paralyzed below the chest and had hydrocephalus. Doctors immediately operated on him by stitching a hole in his back and removing fluid from the empty cavity that was supposed to contain the brain.
After that, everyone prepared for the seemingly inevitable death of the baby, but Noah was not going to die. Moreover, he began to recover and after 10 days he was discharged from the hospital.
Subsequently, he will be pumped out more than once, but all this turned out to be trifles after, at three years old, a scan revealed that the brain began to recover inside Noah's skull!
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Before and after.
According to doctors, about 80% of the normal brain is now in Noah's head. The boy's mental development, meanwhile, is also practically at the level of the norm, he speaks coherently, reasoning, and has learned to count.
He is still paralyzed from the waist down, but has learned to use a wheelchair well.
Recently, Noah Wall and his parents were invited to the show "Good Morning Britain" and the boy looked like a normal child. According to his parents, his biggest dream is to learn how to walk and ski.
Noah is currently undergoing special neurophysical treatment, a form of brain training with cognitive exercises and physical therapy.
According to Noah's mother, doctors suggested that they have an abortion five times and it cost them a lot of nervous tension to go through such pressure.
Since then, Noah's parents have regularly sent the clinic's doctors photos and videos of their son showing how he is developing and how wrong they were.