Two-year-old Joscelyn Dempsey may not talk yet, but her favorite T-shirt is a wisecracker.
The tot from Mount Dora underwent a series of radical brain surgeries — five in all — during the past 12 months, in which specialists at Florida Hospital for Children opened her skull and removed pieces of her brain until the entire left side was gone or disconnected.
“I train neurosurgeons,” her T-shirt reads.
Her parents, Jennifer and Michael Dempsey, opted for the risky intervention a year ago because the left side of Joscelyn’s brain was abnormally larger than the right and triggered uncontrollable, potentially deadly seizures.
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