Teenager Jacob Cachia is back home and recovering well from last week’s operation in which a titanium plate was used to replace part of his skull, removed after he contracted a rare brain infection.

Now 16, Jacob no longer has to live in fear of hitting his head because the titanium plate is shielding the right side of his brain where the skull had been removed.

The operation also represented the beginning of his transformation into a new superhero – Titanium Man, a nickname given to him by his mother, Sarah, with whom he set up the Facebook support group, Survivors Malta.

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