Premium Content Subscriber only FOR a little boy who has already gone through so much in his young life, it's hard to find James Selwyn-Smith without a smile on his face. Like many other kids his age he's obsessed with Marvel superheroes and playing Lego. But before the age of seven he had already had five major surgeries and that was before his family knew he would be battling a medical condition they had never heard of for the rest of his life. A little over a year ago he had a tumour the size of a lemon removed from his brain.