Relearning to read, write and walk after a coma
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When he was 11 years old, Alex Chan Ping Siong contracted a bacterial infection that led to meningitis, a brain inflammation. He had to be placed in an induced coma for 3 months.
When he woke up, the first thing he learnt to write again was his own name.
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