Can you honestly say that the circumstances surrounding the death of Travis Shumate have not affected you? Or at the very least made you think..? Whether you have Hydro yourself or someone you love has it, really doesn’t matter. I’m sure many of us have hit a level of...
Articles for February 2018
I’m a member of the Hydrocephalus family…Never Alone
Family. What defines it? Because of all the support groups for Hydrocephalus, I belong to and through my blog, I incorporated the phrase at the top of today’s post in my Hydro Logo. Nothing brings it home more just how big and affected this family is when one of...
So how does it happen? A shunt breaking inside your brain, that is…
I honestly don’t have the answer to this question…all I know is, that it has and can happen. If I thought this condition was scary before, I’m definitely on a different page today. Travis Shumate was a fellow Hydro warrior who unfortunately had this happen to his shunt. It...
Shunts & shunt malfunctions
What if the only way to save your life, was by inserting a thin piece of tubing into your brain and leading it to another part of your body? How would you feel about that? I get shivers every time I think about how they actually get this contraption...
Do we depend on doctors too much?
This is a bit of a tough one for me and admittedly a double-edged sword. I tend to want to see the good in someone regardless of the wrong they do (within reason). More so, I remind myself to give people the benefit of the doubt, should the situation...
“There must be a reason…you know, a reason why you’re alive…”
I didn’t expect a wave of emotion to come over me just by someone else uttering those words to me. She was sincere in her questioning, compassionate in her approach and tender in her responses – the Sonographer who performed a pelvic and abdominal scan on me today. Why...