On this day

Four years ago today, a hole was drilled in my skull and a small microchip controlled pump was inserted into a space inside my brain, along with a tube running from the right ventricle to my abdominal cavity.
Although a ventriculoperitoneal shunt, as the procedure is known is fairly common, there is no such thing as [...]

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