Second Place
Christopher Capozziello
Freelance
"UNTITLED"
We don’t see Nick like this often. Even when he’s in the midst of a cramp from the cerebral palsy he was born with, we seldom seen him this powerless and afraid. Nick Capozziello is my twin brother. In 2010, he underwent Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery to help curb the side effects of the cramping that the cerebral palsy has caused him his entire life. After his surgery, we all wondered what would happen, whether all he’d just been through would be worth it. The next year-and-a-half will show us, as we make visits to the doctor who will make remote adjustments to the brain pacemaker that delivers tiny electrical shocks to his brain, gradually retraining his whole nervous system to relax his muscles.
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