#hydrocephalus

Hello everyone! So this is one of those emergency posts that I need to do. The kid in these pictures has hydrocephalus. They are asking for help for the continued medication, checkups, and surgery to reduce the fluid in his brain, and hopefully live longer. I believe this is a very urgent call for help so please, if you can see this, please share and reblog.

Their weekly expenses for his medication ranges from $1000-$2000, depending on the child's situation.

He his waitlisted for 2 years now for his surgery in a public hospital so they are hoping that if they can raise funds immediately for his surgery, they would choose to pay instead of waiting longer with no assurance.

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Jake [Original Post]

Kitten | Neutered Male | Domestic Shorthair

Jake has hydrocephalus and requires lifelong oversight by a neurologist.

Jake is on daily medication to manage his condition.

Jake had entropion affecting his right eye, this has been surgically corrected.

Available In: Woodbury, New Jersey (United States) [Kitkat Playroom]

Originally posted on Petfinder on 01/02/26. Shared on Tumblr on 01/03/26.

Thank you for saying I don't have to answer this. It doesn't make me uncomfortable.

I personally don't because it doesn't feel right for me personally.

I'm legally blind but can get around if I'm wearing my glasses.

I have Hydrocephalus (buildup of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain). It got so bad it made me almost completely deaf. Since my brain surgery late last year, I'm back to being hard of hearing. I haven't removed deafness from my pinned post because I'm still trying to figure out how I identify and where I fit in the Deaf community.

(My Hydrocephalus also affected my vision a little bit.)

That's not to say anyone who has the same amount of hearing and vision as I do can't or doesn't identify as DeafBlind, but I personally don't because it doesn't feel accurate to my experiences of these disabilities.

it's not offensive if a disabled person chooses to refer to themselves as disabled. y'all have made this word almost equal to "bad" and now you're whining about the group you don't belong to using this word and being comfortable with it.

I don't know anyone with the condition, but I want to give some awareness to Hydrocephalus. I actually discovered it because Jason Vorhees of all characters has it. Essentially, it causes a build up of fluid in the brain/skull that can be very deadly, and in babies it can drastically stretch the skull. They have to put in a tube thing (I forgot what it's called sorry) that drains the fluid to another part of the body, like the abdomen, so it can be absorbed into the body. It also can cause things like development of epilepsy, strokes, etc. I don't know all that much about it, but I'm not a medical professional either.