Brooke Greenberg: A girl frozen in time!

Left side of this pic is Brooke.

Brooke Greenberg is old enough to drive a car and next year will be old enough to vote — but at16lb in weight and just 30in tall, she is still the size of a one-year-old.

Superficially, Brooke, who lives with her parents Howard and Melanie Greenberg and her three sisters in Reisterstown, a Baltimore suburb, is frozen in time. She looks and acts as if she were asmall toddler — for 17 years her family has changed her nappies, rocked her to sleep and given her cuddles.

Brooke has shown some development, including crawling, smiling and giggling when tickled but she has never learnt to speak and still has her infant teeth.
But she has also suffered a succession of life-threatening health problems, including strokes, seizures, ulcers and breathing difficulties— almost as if she were growing old despite not growing up.