article_snippet.sent: Beaming towards the camera as a toothy 10-year-old, Carl Thompson is the picture of health as Carl Thompson poses in Carl Thompson family's back garden.
article_snippet.sent: the once rosy-cheeked boy is confined to the ground floor flat where the once rosy-cheeked boy lives alone in Dover, Kent, kept company by a team of NHS carers who come to bathe the once rosy-cheeked boy and cook for the once rosy-cheeked boy every day.
article_snippet.sent: But aged around 10 Carl Thompson was a normal size and played like a normal child .
article_snippet.sent: The former factory worker is pictured above aged around four . '