9-yr-old has half a brain

She has stunned doctors and her family with a miraculous recovery from the radical surgery and now wants to become a ballerina.

The nine-year-old developed the brain disorder Rasmussen's syndrome at the age of three, which saw the disease eat away at the right side of her brain.

Cameron has recently finished her physiotherapy and can now run and play, with a slight limp.u00a0X-ray of her brain

Violent fits

This triggered violent epileptic fits and seizures, which doctors eventually said could only be prevented by removing half of her brain.

"It was very scary, because you just can't imagine what your child will be like after such a dramatic brain
surgery," Cameron's mother Shelly said.

"It just doesn't seem like she can be the same child. It was absolutely the right choice.

And, really, for us, when we knew what she had, and we knew that this was our only option to help her, the risk was something that we were willing to deal with because her quality of life was so poor."

Cameron has recently finished her physiotherapy and can now run and play, with a slight limp.
The school girl also lost some of her peripheral vision.

Scare of paralysis

Doctors knew that removing the right side of the brain which controls the left side of the body, meant she would be paralysed when she woke from surgery. But they also knew that kids' brains are capable of rewiring themselves.

Cameron walked out of the hospital four weeks after her surgery. When asked if she had any lingering effects from the surgery, Cameron said, 'No. None at all.'

Asked what her goals were, Cameron said, "I want to be a ballerina when I grow up."

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