A 9-year-old boy born with just 2 percent of his brain hopes to learn how to walk after undergoing a five-hour operation to straighten his legs. Noah Wall from Carlisle in Cumbria, England, developed a rare brain condition in the womb, and his parents Michelle, 49, and Rob, 55, were told by doctors he would likely never talk, walk, or eat on his own. However, the young boy has been determined to follow his dream of running and eventually scoring a goal at a football stadium. To make his dream a reality, Noah has taken the first steps. Brave Noah was diagnosed with spina bifida—a congenital defect of the spine in which part of the spinal cord and its meninges are exposed through a gap in the backbone. This often causes the individual to be paralyzed from the chest down. Early scans revealed that Noah would likely be missing a …