"Incredibly, not only did Ahad retain sufficient mental faculties to speak, walk and live a normal life, he managed to graduate from his local University with an honours degree."

From: http://www.mymultiplesclerosis.co.uk/stranger-than-fiction/ahadisrafil.html

What a story.

not that his story is not an heroic tale of struggle against an incredible setback, but, adaptation is survival at its best, and the gawking is more for the gawk, than the walk.....this voyeur shit is like watching Mexican television....as in Telemundo......

This coming from someone who would probably spend more genuine time with the afflicted that most......

Okay the image it's on now is just too much...

They do hemispherectomies now-a-days (first at Johns Hopkins, now all over) for sever, debilitating epilepsy. Children with frequent life-threatening seizures that don't respond well to medication undergo functional hemispherectomy, where nearly all of one hemisphere is removed, not unlike with this young man.

wikipedia? sure... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemispherectomy

... and at choggie's comment, I understand the downvote for voyeurism, but I was astounded the first time I heard about the hemispherectomy procedure, and thought this video was similarly astounding ... he literally had much of his brains blown out and is still a high functioning person... if you asked any Joe Nobody on the street if you can live with half a brain they might just say "a'course not!", making this a pretty interesting clip.

Choggie is not actually that virtuous, but he wants to believe that he is. Where is the follow up now after he graduated college? That's way more interesting than the surgery.

Wow.

Hey, the man gets a "happy" ending here. He makes a life for himself in spite of what was taken from him. Not voyeurism.. If it stopped at the image of his missing half of skull then well.