Will Craig

Yeah, so as I mentioned before, it's a condition called hydrocephalus.

So you've got your brain, you've got your skull, and in the middle you've got cerebral spinal fluid.

Your body brings it up, drains it out naturally, absorbs it through the body.

Mine brings it in, but none drains out naturally.

So I've got a mechanical device called a shunt that goes into my brain, drains out the cerebral spinal fluid, brings it down to my abdominal cavity.

It's a man-made piece of plastic.

it'll break and it's going to break and they can't make it out of metal.

Cause that's not practical for a number of reasons.

You also have to do cat scans.

So it's got to make it out.

It's a polymer plastic and that's not meant to last forever.

So the doctors, my neurosurgeon neurosurgical team that I work with have said, if it breaks, I've got roughly eight hours.

That's kind of the estimate of what happens when that, and you would know it'd be very, very obvious.

And so,

that, you know, living with that kind of ticking time.

So I was diagnosed at two months old.

At four months old, I had my first break.

And then I went from four months till I was 16 without a problem.

And then at 16, I collapsed in high school and went home.

My dad and I thought I had the flu, but then took me to the hospital and because my temperature got down to like the high 80s and was headed to a coma.