MEET OUR KIDS
OK Parents, here’s your time to shine. As part of our website we will be giving proper credit to the “superstar” children we treat. We hope that this showcase both excites your children, and helps provide motivation to other families out there who are going down this difficult road for the first time.
If parents wish, they will be able to provide their e-mail address so that other parents can reach out with questions, or to simply congratulate you on being such a wonderful Mom or Dad!
CHASE’S STORY
Chase is 16 years old and would like to play football, but because he has hydrocephalus and a shunt, that is not a possibility. So, Chase has decided to become the best golfer he can be. Chase is bright, alert, and still manages to smile even though he still suffers with chronic headaches and has many battle scars from multiple surgeries.
When Chase was just 4 months old, his parents noticed he was irritable and his fontanelle was full. Chase was diagnosed with hydrocephalus caused by aqueductal stenosis and he received his first shunt. Sadly, Chase has had too many shunt surgeries to list them all individually. He had 6 shunt revisions before he was 2 years old. The year 2000 was not a good year for Chase either because he had another 5 surgeries, and ended up with a left and right shunt. In 2003 Chase underwent Chiari Decompression and yet another shunt revision due to chronic headaches and lethargy. Since then, Chase has underwent placement of ICP monitors, shunt infections, even more revisions and a T-1 laminectomy and L-4, L-5 laminectomy for CSF leak and dural repair. Chase has survived 44 surgeries and unfortunately he will face more surgeries unless a better way to treat hydrocephalus is discovered. Chase does not believe that a better shunt is the answer.
OK Parents, here’s your time to shine. As part of our website we will be giving proper credit to the “superstar” children we treat. We hope that this showcase both excites your children, and helps provide motivation to other families out there who are going down this difficult road for the first time.
If parents wish, they will be able to provide their e-mail address so that other parents can reach out with questions, or to simply congratulate you on being such a wonderful Mom or Dad!
CHASE’S STORY
Chase is 16 years old and would like to play football, but because he has hydrocephalus and a shunt, that is not a possibility. So, Chase has decided to become the best golfer he can be. Chase is bright, alert, and still manages to smile even though he still suffers with chronic headaches and has many battle scars from multiple surgeries.
When Chase was just 4 months old, his parents noticed he was irritable and his fontanelle was full. Chase was diagnosed with hydrocephalus caused by aqueductal stenosis and he received his first shunt. Sadly, Chase has had too many shunt surgeries to list them all individually. He had 6 shunt revisions before he was 2 years old. The year 2000 was not a good year for Chase either because he had another 5 surgeries, and ended up with a left and right shunt. In 2003 Chase underwent Chiari Decompression and yet another shunt revision due to chronic headaches and lethargy. Since then, Chase has underwent placement of ICP monitors, shunt infections, even more revisions and a T-1 laminectomy and L-4, L-5 laminectomy for CSF leak and dural repair. Chase has survived 44 surgeries and unfortunately he will face more surgeries unless a better way to treat hydrocephalus is discovered. Chase does not believe that a better shunt is the answer.
