Thanks for the info. Yeah I don't have fever just swelling around the stitches on the neck. It's not all day though mostly in the morning when I wake up. I talked to my NS and he said it was normal. To me this is all new so I don't know whats normal.
Another thing is sleep. I have not been able to sleep more than 4 hrs at night since I had the shunt. Does it ever get easier to sleep? I wake up and just can't get back to sleep. I don't sleep during the day so I have no idea whats going on.
I guess I'm just a little nervous not knowing what to expect. Before this I had no idea what a shunt was. Now I'm just trying to get as much knowledge as possible. So if anybody have websites you can recommend I would greatly appreciate it.