TomNorton published Seven-year-old girl brought back from brink by Nottingham...

Seven-year-old Grace Pearson is one of the most energetic youngsters you could meet, relentlessly bouncing from wall to wall, jumping into conversations or playing with her little brother, Joseph. But just months ago, she was on a ventilator and fighting for her life after a series of seizures that took all that energy away. Over the course of about nine weeks, she was treated at Nottingham's Children Hospital, in the Queen's Medical Centre. Grace had suffered encephalitis, a swelling on...