Davey Reid, who has hydrocephalus, has already had 51 brain surgeries, 60 CT scans and nearly 50 MRIs. He's only 6.
Davey Reid spent his sixth birthday this year in a medically-induced coma. He had no idea why he was in that coma, and there's no telling what he dreamt that day. A little more than seven months later, he got to do something he could once only dream of doing.
"He was normal when he was born. But at that checkup, they said his head size was off the charts," said Davey's mom, Jacey Reid. Davey had four more surgeries in the next few weeks. The initial diagnosis and subsequent surgeries shocked his parents, David and Jacey Reid.."One day everything is fine and the next it wasn't. It was hard to digest what was happening."
The surgeries are to replace a shunt in his brain. The shunt's purpose is to drain cerebrospinal fluid from the brain and distribute it elsewhere in the body where it can be reabsorbed, according to Johns Hopkins University.
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