When Kurt was born, he was deaf, and had 2 deformities in his spine, a cleft palate, a deformed ear, and a bloody hole in the back of his skull, which, according to surgical brain specialists, should have paralyzed him from the neck down. In addition, Kurt was also born with a rare congenital defect called Goldenhar's Syndrome, and during a botched anesthesiology, the doctor (who was drunk) punctured one of his lungs.