A healthy young man woke up ‘in the body of a newborn baby’ after a brain infection wiped his memory leaving him forced to learn to walk and talk again. Wesley Prosser, 26, was struck down with the auto-immune condition encephalitis – a potentially deadly condition that causes swelling on the brain. The car salesman, from Santa Rosa, California, USA, had any memory of the previous six months before his diagnosis wiped and realised he’d completely forgotten how to walk and talk. He said: “I was literally a newborn again. When I woke up I couldn’t walk, couldn’t talk. “It was scary and I was panicking.
MERCURY PRESS. (Pictured: Wesley Prosser, 26, with his partner Griselda.) A healthy young man woke up ‘in the body of a newborn baby’ after a brain infection wiped his memory leaving him forced to learn to walk and talk again..Wesley Prosser, 26, was struck down with the auto-immune condition encephalitis – a potentially deadly condition that causes swelling on the brain..The car salesman, from Santa Rosa, California, USA, had any memory of the previous six months before his diagnosis wiped and realised he’d completely forgotten how to walk and talk. (SEE MERCURY COPY)MERCURY PRESS. (Pictured: Wesley Prosser’s ‘dead teeth’.) A healthy young man woke up ‘in the body of a newborn baby’ after a brain infection wiped his memory leaving him forced to learn to walk and talk again..Wesley Prosser, 26, was struck down with the auto-immune condition encephalitis – a potentially deadly condition that causes swelling on the brain..The car salesman, from Santa Rosa, California, USA, had any memory of the previous six months before his diagnosis wiped and realised he’d completely forgotten how to walk and talk. (SEE MERCURY COPY)