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Hawke is 3 years old and has a condition called Hydrocephalus. Hydrocephalus has required him to have had 6 brain surgeries within a 45 day span of this year (2011). There is no cure as of today. He has had 8 total surgeries and is statistically guaranteed to require multiple brain surgeries throughout his life. Senator Gifford recently acquired Hydrocephalus after a gun-shot wound to her head. There are thousands of children and adults with this condition. Hawke has a life saving device implanted into his head called a shunt; ½ of all shunts will fail within two years or less. The research, development and awareness of this condition is lacking and is in desperate need of funding. The technology exists to create shunts that can last a lifetime, but the money to integrate the technology into shunts is lacking. Without funding, children and adults will continue to fight death and undergo many brain surgeries throughout their lives. Some patients have undergone hundreds of shunt revisions. Please help Hawke and the non-profit Hydrocephalus Awareness Organization raise money for research, development and potentially, a cure!
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