Hello from lurkinglandButterflyB wrote:Yes I have a shunt The first one was placed when I was a year old and lasted me until I was 15. I then went on to have multiple shunt revisions because of complications but I am doing well now. I do have occasional headaches but I learn to live with itOhReallyNow wrote: You're thriving with hydrocephalus?! That's absolutely awesome!! Not sure if people know how severe that is and scary, but that's really good to hear. Did you get a shunt?
It's an incredibly small world, because I too have hydrocephalus and am 24. I haven't had a shunt revision though, and have been doing really well - very few headaches/migraines (headache about once a month or every other month, migraine maybe twice a year), at least that aren't cured by a hot shower or a nap.
My only worry now is where I'm getting married in October and my fiancé wants kids pretty much immediately afterwards (long story short we've been living together for a year and a half almost so we're past the whole "time to ourselves" thing LOL). Through Google (which I know isn't super reliable for research ), I've seen some moms with hydrocephalus deliver perfectly healthy kids, but it still worries me. We'll be seeing a specialist about the whole thing before we get married though.
And to stay on topic of Lora - I wonder if she did secretly want a girl, because the "oh my gosh" she let out when the US tech said it looked like another little boy sounded almost frustrated...or was that just me?
Granted I know now that Everett's here, she's happy regardless because he seems healthy and thriving, but I thought that long before I started lurking here xD