A six years old Texas girl that had half of her brain removed during a surgical procedure back in June, left the hospital where she was recovering after the operation and spent her first night at home. Even though the surgical procedure is a very dangerous and complex one, doctors at the John Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore said that about a dozen such procedures take place at their hospital each year.

The little girl was suffering from a rare disease called Chronic Focal Encephalitis, also known as CFE or Rasmussen's encephalitis. The disease eats at one hemisphere of the brain and leads to paralysis and mental retardation if not cured through hemispherectomy, the removal or disconnection of the affected hemisphere. Its symptoms include frequent and severe seizure, hemiparesis, dementia and mental deterioration, among others. CFE generally occurs in children under 10 years of age.

Following her June operation, the six years old girl was transferred to Cook's Children's Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. During her stay there, the girl had to train her left hemisphere to take over the functions of the right one, which was removed. The little girl still suffers from hemiparesis, and she sometimes needs to search for words when asked relatively simple questions.

However, her parents say that she has not lost her memory and she has the same personality as before.

The little girl said that she wants to grow long hair to hide the scar on her skull and that she was very excited to see her dog again.