no kidding in the Fall of 2003, around Halloween. In 2006, I had 4 revisions of a programmable shunt in 6 months, and in 2009, I had 7 revisions of a ProGAV gravitational VP programmable shunt in 3 months. This type of german model shunt is to prevent overdrainage, but obvious not meningitis, in which I was in the hospital for-- for 5 weeks. The only downside is that it causes headaches every 4 months, which could be temperature/weather related, as we have gotten smacked with feet of snow out here and my head really hurts! I was born with a Dandy-Walker cyst that caused my hydro btw!