They all thought he was gone.
Martin\'s parents were told an unknown degenerative disease left him with the mind of a baby and less than two years to live..
Within eighteen months he was mute and wheelchair-bound.
Doctors were mystified.
Then he slept constantly and shunned human contact.
First he lost his voice and stopped eating.
In January 1988 Martin Pistorius, aged twelve, fell inexplicably sick.
But he was alive and Trapped Inside his own Body for ten years.
They all thought he was gone