Trudi,

I am printing off your blog to read it thoroughly. My husband has a vp shunt due to hydrocephalus at age 2. He is now 45 and has has six subsequent revisions. He is have significant cognitive issues, but has been denied social security for four years. His last denial essentially said "You have a Master's Degree, you can do something". His memory and personality have changed significantly since his last shunt revision in 1997.

We now have an attorney and an appointment with an Administrative Law Judge on July 24, 2012. My husband has issues that resulted from the shunt. . .they believe that during the initial shunt placement he had a stroke in the right visual cortex which left him with no right perpherial vision in either eye, he cannot drive.

I am so thankful for this group it is comforting for me to be able to find out that we are all subjected to the same thing from the government.

Virginia