{"id":239,"date":"2013-04-07T17:16:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T16:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jordantheheadcase.wordpress.com\/?p=239"},"modified":"2024-06-01T11:13:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T11:13:43","slug":"the-hydro-hangover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordantheheadcase.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/07\/the-hydro-hangover\/","title":{"rendered":"Living with hydrocephalus: The Hydro Hangover"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a hangover.\u00a0 This is not good.\u00a0 Hangovers are never good at the best of times, but when you have hydrocephalus, it’s a bad<\/em> situation.\u00a0 I would like to state before I continue that this is a pretty rare occurrence.\u00a0 I have not become teetotal since my diagnosis; in the early years of my reluctance to accept my new condition I would sometimes go out and purposefully get<\/em> drunk, as if to say to the rest of the world (but really more to myself), ‘See?\u00a0 I am just like everyone else!\u00a0 I can go out to clubs, dance too much, drink too much, suffer too much the next day and get over it!\u00a0 My life hasn’t really changed completely!’.\u00a0 Of course the reality was that I would suffer far more than a generally healthy person would and it would take me days to get over it.\u00a0 Luckily this phase didn’t last.\u00a0 I snapped out of it quickly enough once acceptance kicked in and since then I’ve been pretty healthy.\u00a0 But I still have a social drink and sometimes a glass at home in the evening with dinner.\u00a0 But hangovers – nah.\u00a0 They’re simply not worth it. For anyone wondering how drinking may affect a shunted brain, here’s the lowdown;<\/p>\n