Against all odds, Dylan on the way to Eagle

Dylan Norwood had just turned 2 in 1994 when he had a radical operation called a hemispherectomy. Johns Hopkins Children's Center surgeon Ben Carson removed half of Dylan's brain.
Three-quarters of the right side of Dylan's brain had died when he had a stroke when he was born. But it wasn't until he began having seizures at 6 months old that his parents realized he had a problem.
Dylan, now 18, is a senior at Hereford High School who will be getting his driver's license soon and hopes to go to college. He is also a Boy Scout and wants to become an Eagle Scout before he graduates from Hereford. When he looked for a community service to perform as an Eagle requirement, the answer came easy. "I'm making 20 baskets of toys to give other kids who had the same operation I had," Dylan said. "Because this is my project, I had to be in charge of getting other Scouts to "Here, this is for you," Dylan said as he placed a box filled with crayons, coloring books, toys and socks on her bed. Tatum's parents couldn't keep their eyes off Dylan, who is 6-foot-4 and wore his Boy Scout uniform covered with badges under the protective hospital gown. "It gives us a lot of encouragement looking at you," said Tatum's father, Robert, who made Eagle Scout rank in 1976. "It's our hope our little girl does as well as you have. You've given us inspiration and hope." help me raise money and shop for toys, put the baskets together and deliver them."