A reader pointed me to this piece:
Boy Without a Cerebellum Baffles Doctors
Argh. This is going to be a bit awkward. So I’ll just say at the outset that I have nothing against kids struggling with serious illnesses and I wish them all the best. The article’s about Chase Britton, a boy who apparantly lacks two important parts of the brain: the cerebellum and the pons. Despite this, the article says, Chase is a lovely kid and is determined to be as active as possible.
As I said, I am all in favor of this. However the article runs into trouble is where it starts to argue that “doctors are baffled” by this:
When he was 1 year old, doctors did an MRI, expecting to find he had a mild case of cerebral palsy. Instead, they discovered he was completely missing his cerebellum — the part of the brain ...
