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ON THE EVENING of 11 October 2019, Brandon's life changed forever - but, to this day, he still has no clear picture of what happened. After leaving his apartment on his skateboard to pick up food for himself and his mom - a route he skated "regularly" - Brandon last remembers waiting for the lights to change on a busy Manhattan street corner. No one is able to tell him what came next: "We have no idea who found me, no idea how I got to the hospital even. There's no ambulance report, there's no 911 call, there's no camera footage from the hospital." Brandon had sustained a traumatic brain injury. Three days later, he woke up from a medically-induced coma, after doctors had performed emergency surgery to save his life - they had removed a large piece of his skull to ease the pressure caused by a bleed on his brain. Since the night of the mystery incident, Brandon has had a total of 7 surgeries - including twice having implants fitted to replace his missing skull - and spent many months in hospital going through physiotherapy to aid his rehabilitation. Having regained the majority of his function, he has been left with OCD - something he attributes to the brain injury - and heightened ADHD symptoms. During his rehabilitation, Brandon met his girlfriend, Julia - the pair instantly clicked and Julia supported Brandon as he went in and out of "surgery after surgery". In the years following, Brandon gained a following as a YouTuber and Content Creator - and he used his platform to make his own documentary about what may have happened to him, retracing the route he took and interviewing his mom to ascertain the known facts. Whilst he hit constant dead ends in his search for answers, Brandon still keeps the piece of skull removed from his head in a box at home - to help him "process the unknown of the accident". And having now made peace with the fact that he may never know exactly what happened, Brandon is choosing to focus on the positives that have come out of the life-changing incident. He has discovered new-found engineering abilities, with his brain now able to connect dots in a way it previously could not, and he has turned his YouTube account into a showcase of his inventions. But most poignantly of all, standing on the street corner he last remembers being on the night of the incident, Brandon told Truly of his realisation that had events not played out the way they did, he may never have met Julia: "Call it fate, call it whatever you want to call it. I think everything happens for a reason."

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Videographer: Kevin Huang
Producers: Hannah Beaugeard, Tom Buckman, Georgia Embling,
Editor: Jonny Poole

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00:00 Intro
0:24 Meet Brandon & Learn About His Accident
3:18 Brandon Speaks About The Issues With His Original Surgery
4:09 Brandon Speaks About Meeting His GF - Julia.
4:40 Brandon And Julia Go To The Area Of The Accident
6:03 New Life - New Hobbies!
7:36 Outro

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