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Post by lois on Feb 7, 2011 17:07:28 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2011 21:02:48 GMT -6
The child may not live no matter what they do or don't do. Hydrocephalus (water on the brain) can kill but not always so. I remember a study they did some 15 years ago concerning hydro cephalic children and they found one child at age 6 who was very very smart, walked, talked..all the usual child things but when x rayed only had the brain stem left and there were others who shouldn't have been able to move let alone do algebra. As Steve and before him Jeff Goldblum (Jurassic Park) might say..life will find a way. health.yahoo.net/channel/hydrocephalus.html
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Post by paulette on Feb 8, 2011 11:40:48 GMT -6
If its the same study I read about - a man who had studied a group of kids with hydrocephalus finally got to MRI or PET scan them and determined that one boy had only a rind (but an active rind). He was in engineering college courses and doing well enough. These kids had had surgical intervention and shunts (the shunts often get blocked up and have to be redone.) I imagine that with no relatives interested in paying for surgery, unless a doctor or charity from the States steps forward, he will have a short life.
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