Before Noah Wall of Cumbria, England was even born, his family knew that he would be physically and developmentally disabled. In utero he had developed a rare complication of spina bifida where his skull filled with fluid, thereby crushing his brain down into nothing more than a sliver of tissue. And that sliver was just 2 percent of his brain.
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His parents were advised five seperate times to abort him but they made the decision to keep him. While doctors didn’t believe there was any hope, his family disagreed.
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After he was born, an open wound in his back was closed and a shunt was installed to drain the fluid from his brain.1 While his parents, Shelly and Rob, picked out a baby coffin for him, they never stopped believing his life was anything less than a gift. They took him home and poured into him and slowly, his brain began to grow!
“When he was 3, a brain scan showed that his brain ‘had expanded to 80% of a normal brain.’
The family continues to keep Noah’s brain stimulated to aid his neurological growth. Dr. Claire Nicholson of Newcastle’s Great North Children’s Hospital in England — Noah’s neurosurgeon — calls him ‘a remarkable child with two remarkable parents.'”1
Noah is, in a word, a miracle.
He’s a smiley boy who “shows empathy and love in his words and deeds, is learning to read and write, can count, and attends school.”1 He’s made such amazing progress and his brain continues to develop beyond what anyone can explain, that his family believes he may even walk one day.
We wouldn’t be surprised!
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