Hello everyone. I'm am new to the group and wanted to introduce myself an situation. My name is Kelly, I have a son who is 11 years old now. I was 5 mths...
thats interesting.i was also born with hydrocephalus but it wasnt diagonsed until i was about a year old...some damage was already done but i could of ended up...
wow you 2 are really lucky my daughter was shunted at 9 months and she has had 3 revisions and the last one was pretty scray cause she did not present the...
....and their is something weird about this...all the well paid doctors could not figure out what was wrong...and then a volunteer nurse figured out i had...
nurses listen a lot more to the signs then the doctors do, i learnt that one the hard way LA ... From: Tim L To: hydrocephalus@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday,...
i would have to agree what you have to say tim cause this same thing happend to my husband. he had been complaing for months about headaches and feeling dizzy...
hi fellow hydro friends My hydrocephalus wasn't discovered till I was 34 so I had been living with this and not knowing why I was having problem,why the...
Hi Kathy, Wow I've never heard of it being discovered that late in life, unless it was caused by an accident or something. My son's doc told us to watch for...
it was kind of weird...my head was bigger and i was very slow in my devolpment(and then the whole screaming thing)...yet they never figured it out until after...
hey you kathy and mark how can you just ignore your family. when my husband had his brain surgery he was real upset that his parents from PA didn't come to see...
Dasy, The thing is since Mark and I have been together my parent have done their level best to make sure I stay unhappy. the even paid a know criminal to rape...
Hi everyone. For those of you that don't know me my son Dakota was diagnosed w/hydro and shunted in May at 6 months. He is now doing good and right on track...
Hi Leslie, Can't tell you what the odds are but I know my second pregnancy they followed me very closely also and my son had no problems whatsoever Lise Anne ...
I do know of one woman in Missouri who has two daughters who both have hydrocephalus. I don't know what the stastics on that are, though. Debby's e-mail...
Hi Leslie With my2nd one they kept an eye on her by ultrasounds, and it wasmy normal doctor. Everything turned out alright wit her. KellyH LiseAnne Gaudet...
Hi Leslie my name is Melissa my first child had hydro and since then i have delivered 2 more children and one on the way without the complicaton. Your Dr is...
In a message dated 7/14/2005 9:28:51 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, hydrocephalus@yahoogroups.com writes: hey you kathy and mark how can you just ignore your...
Hi, Lately there have been several members in the group that spoke of being diagnosed in their 30's. I'm wondering if others have been diagnosed after the age...
Richard, Thank you for writing. Thanks for Debby's email I'll be sure to contact her. Thanks again Leslie Richard <rhenerlau@...> wrote: I do know of one...
Hi Melissa, Thanks for writing. I'm glad that your other two and the one on the way (congrats!) are doing good. I was still in shock from finding out that I...
Hi everyone, i am new to the group and wanted to introduce myself. I am 35 and live in Indiana. I was diagnosed with hydro at 3 months, i have a vp shunt and...
I don't think that I have posted to this group. In 1986, my parents disowned me and told my 9 siblings that they would disown them if they had anything to do...
Just wanted to respond to the email that on my husband's thirty birthday he was diagnosed with hydro and was put in the hospital for a surgery were they put a...
Ok if you think this is too harsh then you don't have to have a go at me because I didn't ask to have this condition and would have said yes to a shunt at the...
Debi & Kathy, i would never judge either of you for removing toxic family members from your life. it took several years and a lot of damage before i finally...
I know it is easy to judge people my husbands family can't except the fact that he can't work. They to do anything to cut him down cause of this when he can't...
my family never wanted me as I was a result of a fling and my parents even paid someone to kill me. luckily I have enough faith in god and he managed to...
My last revision was in 2002. It's been four years (to-date). I have a scar on the right- front side of my head from a revision about, oh, five years ago. Now,...