I am 52 years old. When I was 7 or 8 months old (June or July 1956) I had a shunt implanted by Dr. Louis J. Gogela (Lincoln, Nebraska). I am now trying to better understand my surgery.

I was told by my Mother, that the Doctor who developed the shunt had performed the procedure only a few times before my surgery and that Dr. Gogela had done about ten.

I have long felt that I was almost alone with my situation. I have optic nerve damage in my left eye and since the shunt was installed thru my right ear, I am deaf in that ear.

William E. Kendra