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A six-year-old Texas girl whose brain had been partly removed through surgery to save her life from a rare neurological disease returned home for good Thursday.

Jessie Hall walked out of Cook's Children's Medical Center, where she had been undergoing therapy after her operation at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland in June. She will continue her therapy at her family's house in Aledo.

Neurosurgeons had removed the right half of Hall's brain because it was being eaten away by a disease called Rasmussen's Encephalitis. The diseased part of the brain was removed before it could totally paralyze half of the girl's body.

Hall did not lose her cognitive function after the operation but she had to undergo rehabilitation to learn how to use the remaining half of her brain in controlling body functions previously controlled by the other half.