Kellisa's
smile and love of life were gone. She was battling high fevers for weeks.
Nothing was bringing her temperature down to normal. She saw a doctor every few
days and was in and out of the ER and hospitals without any relief. Once again,
Kellisa was baffling the doctors.
From
early on, Lisa was convinced it was the shunt. After a CT scan and MRI, we were
assured that the shunt was fine. Kellisa's shunt had been in place for a long
enough time that a shunt infection was very unlikely. The neurosurgeon didn’t
want to tap the shunt to check the cerebral fluid for an infection because if
it wasn’t infected, the procedure itself carried a 2% risk of infecting the
shunt.
