This blog along with several others that I've done is about well-known
people with Hydrocephalus or shows or movies that have focused on it. I've written
about most of the well-known people that have Hydrocephalus that I know of. Now
I want to focus on shows and movies which involve more research, which is why I
haven't written about this topic in a while.
I'm focusing on a made for TV movie this week that originally aired and used
to be played frequently on the Disney channel. The movie originally aired when
I was in the 8th grade (2000). At the time I didn't know anyone else with
Hydrocephalus. I discovered the Hydrocephalus and talked to a few people from a
Hydrocephalus e-mail group but I wouldn't meet anyone in person or really
connect with anybody with it online for almost a decade. Also at the time my
only surgery was when my shunt was placed at 16 months, and rarely had
headaches. Currently I've been having headaches and migraines on a daily basis
but for now I'm revision free still. I had and still have other problems that
have to do with my Hydrocephalus but not the childhood brain surgeries that
most kids with Hydrocephalus experience. I realized that on average normally
people with Hydrocephalus would have to have a shunt revision every 2 or 3
years, so I knew that in that way I was different than the main character in
the movie and most people with Hydrocephalus. It's also why I avoided talking
about Hydrocephalus with others because I felt like I was a poser because of
the lack of surgeries I've had. What changed that ended up being the first
person I met on Facebook who had part of his experiences with Hydrocephalus on
his profile. He's about 25 years older than I am and only has had a few
surgeries since childhood and his current shunt is about the same age as mine.
I met a lot of others with Hydrocephalus through him within a pretty short
period of time, and the first few were within the next couple of days. Another
of those few people was someone who has become one of my closest friends out of
all the people I've met online, had a revision free childhood and had his first
surgery when he was a adult a year or two before I met him.
The movie is a true story about a kid living with Hydrocephalus and Spina
bifida named Justin Yoder. The movie is about how was inspired to become a boxcar racer and win. His family fought a rule that you could only use a foot
brake and not a hand brake. Even if I didn't had to deal with surgeries or
being in a wheelchair there was parts of the movie I could relate in one way or
another. It didn't matter much to me because neither of my siblings played
sports, but contact sports was the one thing that I was told not to do so I
wouldn't get hurt and ending up damaging my shunt, so I would have to sit out a
lot of the time. When it came to his family talking about his surgeries, the
struggle to play medical bills and also his revision during the movie I could
relate to it because I knew that it could happen to me without warning too even
if it's something I never experienced. Our finances were usually tight growing
up, so that made the thought of the possible emergency surgery more
stressful.
There's a link to a site where you can stream the movie online. It does ask
you to download a movie player but the movie should play without needing to
download anything. Thanks for reading :)
http://putlocker.bz/watch-miracle-in-lane-2-online-free-putlocker.html
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