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********************************************** ***********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, orthe 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 anoption for us?