BodyShock - The Boy With a New Head

BodyShock - The Boy With a New Head

Petero Byakatonda lives in a remote village in Uganda. Born with an extremely rare disorder, his skull is being forced into a cone shape, squashing his brain and destroying his eye-sight. He has been flown to Dallas, Texas for life-saving surgery from a leading US surgeon.

Petero suffers from a rare genetic disorder known as Crouzon's Syndrome or Crouzon's Disease. It affects just one in ten thousand new-borns and needs to be corrected within a few months of birth. Because Petero's village is so isolated he was left untreated. It's extraordinary that he is still alive.

In Crouzon's Disease the bones of the skull fuse together prematurely, so the skull can't expand as the brain grows. The brain is forced to grow in the direction of least resistance.

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Dr Kenneth Salyer the leading craniofacial surgeon who will treat Petero explains "Petero has ended up with a steeple-shaped skull because this was the weakest area of the skull. So the brain grew up instead of forward. This can result in constriction of the brain to the point where there may be herniation at the base of the brain and death".

Petero's trip to Dallas and his subsequent treatment was made possible by a charity headed by Dr Salyer called The World Craniofacial Foundation. Founded over 17 years ago, the charity helps over 75 children a year, from all over the world, suffering from severe skull deformities.

ExtraOrdinary people - The man with no Past

ExtraOrdinary people - The man with no Past

Before the 4th of December 2005, David was a normal 25-year-old with family, friends and memories. That afternoon, he suffered one of the rarest forms of memory loss ever recorded. The condition, known as a psychogenic fugue, wiped his entire memory clean, leaving him with no identity. This film follows David as he tries to recover the life he had before and attempts to start all over again.

When David Fitzpatrick found himself standing in front of Kings College Hospital, London, he had no idea how he had got there – or who he was. The confused young man was admitted to the hospital as an ‘unknown male’ and his case was referred to the local Missing Persons Unit. Four days later, maps brought in by the police provided a breakthrough when David recognised the address of his old football coach, Mike Rook.

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Worried family and friends flocked to David’s hospital room, hoping to find out what had happened. The experience was overwhelming for David and traumatic for his family, who were devastated when he failed to recognise them. His mother Jeanette recalls that her son displayed “no reaction whatsoever” when she embraced him – a gesture which David remembers as “like a stranger holding me”.

With doctors uncertain of how long it will take for his memory to return, David is embarking on a journey of discovery in the hope of filling in the blanks. While hopeful at the prospect of retrieving his memory, he is also apprehensive at the thought of uncovering what made him go into his fugue in the first place. What was it that prompted his brain to go into shutdown and wipe all his memories of family, experiences and even world events?

David begins his quest by revisiting his childhood home, but is disheartened that the trip fails to trigger any memories of his early years. And when a visit to his old football club sees David awarded the Manager’s Player award for his achievements in the previous year, he cannot remember the matches that showed off his skills.

Without his own memories, David is forced to rely on the recollections of others. “I have to accept what they say,” he explains. “There’s no proof apart from what they are telling me.” He says that he found it difficult to trust people at first, and discovered that his family and friends had conflicting recollections of who he was. In an effort to learn more about his true self,David goes to his old school to hear about what he was like as a boy. He meets up with his old form teacher, who recalls the young David as a ‘scallywag’ and ‘likeable rogue’. After hearing stories about his schoolday antics, reading his old reports and examining photographs, David begins to feel more confident that his memories may be unlocked: this trip has emphasised to him that he existed in the past, even though he cannot remember it. “It’s given me optimism that things will come back quite quickly,” he says. “I didn’t think that before.”

However, David soon realises that the quest to uncover his past will not be straightforward. Not only does he have a six-year-old daughter he must get to know again, but he finds out that a break-up with the woman he saw as the love of his life had sent him into a spiral of self-destructive behaviour. At the time, he hit the drink hard and was even banished from friends’ houses. Was it this chaotic turn of events that pushed him into his fugue? Now that David’s friends and acquaintances have provided him with an insight into the man he was before the fugue, he has a unique opportunity to start again. Painful though the experience has been, he has confronted his past. “I’m back at zero,” he says. “This is where my life starts.”

ExtraOrdinary People - Identical Quads

ExtraOrdinary People - Identical Quads

Aphex Twin fans across the nation will run for the hills when then see this episode of Extraordinary People. The infamous video for the electro legend’s 1997 single "Come to Daddy" features millions of small children, all with a replica of Aphex’s grinning face between their shoulders. It’s terrifying. The dizzying grins are similar, but don’t fear; these little ladies are harmless.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have a clone? Another human being with the same face, body and DNA as you? Well, imagine having three clones:a little gang of yourself. Imagine the scrapes you could get each other out of. Imagine the fun, the confusion, the noise. But imagine giving birth to four babies at once...now that could be slightly less enjoyable.

Steve and Allison Mathias married in 1997. They lived in family-friendly Lexington, South Carolina and like many other young couples they wished for a baby. Allison was delighted when she fell pregnant, but she got much more than she bargained for. Her belly swelled, and swelled, and swelled a bit more. For despite not undergoing fertility treatment, Allison was expecting four babies; a veritable litter. Because of her unusual situation, Allison was referred to a hospital in Columbia and placed under the charge of a specialist in high-risk pregnancy. But in February 2000 Allison gave birth to four absolutely identical baby girls, defying odds of one in ten million.

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The girls were all born prematurely and with a low birth weight so their future looked precarious. But five years down the line they are all happy, healthy and endlessly entertaining. Alison informs us, "I have a leader; a – I hate to say – whiner; and then somebody who thinks she's the boss; and I have a teaser".

This film follows the Mathiases story from the surprise news of the pregnancy and the life-threatening birth to the day the girls start school. Throughout, passers-by stop Allison in the street to shriek, "Excuse me ma'am, are they for real?" In this mind-boggling film we see the four mini personalities in action - from leader Grace, Allison's firstborn, to the baby of the group Anna, with only 30 seconds between each birth. Allison thinks the girls fill the usual sociological roles of birth order, only in this case the births were just moments apart.

We hear all about the trials and tribulations of bringing up four babies at once. As well as the initial worry of getting the quads mixed up, the costs were immense and the Mathiases had to rely on family, friends and health insurance. Each girl had her own place at a special feeding table donated to the family by the church. At six months old, a $1000 worth of formula fed the girls for two weeks. The Mathias quads also went through 10 jars of food, 16 bottles and 32 nappies a day, and their weekly supermarket bill is $250. We also hear how Masters graduate Allison had to leave her job in a hospital to become a full time mother, and how the Mathiases cope when going on holiday with four rowdy girls asking "Are we there yet?" Not to mention the squabbles over who gets the front car seat, who sits by mum at the dinner table and who gets the biggest portions of macaroni cheese...

Identical twins are produced when one egg is fertilised by one sperm; sometime after fertilisation the egg splits into two halves. Identical quads are miraculously created when the two halves split again. They share 100% of the genes and they really are each other's natural clones.

Births of quadruplets have increased by some 400% since 1974 as the advent of IVF treatment has made multiple births far more common than ever before. But IVF can never produce identical multiples, making the Mathias clan an incredibly rare sight to see. There are estimated to be only 58 sets of identical quads in the world!

We’ll be joining the squawking little girl gang at a crucial time as they embark on their first day at school. This film captures the nerves of the quads and the confusion of the teachers as they head for their first day in class. We’ll also marvel at how incredibly close the sisters are as they help one another through one of the first big steps of their lives.

"My little babies are all grown up," Allison says, confessing that it will partly be a sad day. But surely she’ll be grateful for the peace. She later concedes that this is the place the girls will begin to show their own personalities, and she’s also looking forward to not hearing everything in four way stereo all day.