Originally Posted by Braindrain

We're having a discussion over on the SSDI board about living independently.

This is part of another member's reply to me:

Oh yeah, there is something called "life alert", but there is one thing that coud be an issue? When your shunt goes down, does it go down without warning or do you normally get gradual signs? This may or may not make a difference as long as you get into surgery ASAP
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I wasn't sure how much help Life Alert could be, since we could have
gradual signs of shunt failure which may go undetected for a while, or
the shunt could fail so quickly, that we may not have time to react.

What do you all think about this? Would Life Alert necklaces be an
option for us?[I had a life alert for almost a year, but it was of little use to me. The darn thing would sometimes go off without me in the room. And when I did use it, only a couple of times, all they could do was send ambulances. And the price of the darn thing was never the same from month to month. I got rid of it]