When 10-month-old "Baby Klaus," as he has become known, was sent home to die after being diagnosed with hydrocephalus, also known as "water on the brain," his head had swollen to more than three times its normal size. His family in El Paso, Texas, was distraught. They didn't know what to do. Baby Klaus not only had a head measuring in at a 104 centimeters in circumference, but he was in obvious pain.
But thanks to the nonprofit organization Hydro Angels Over Texas, a group founded three years ago by hydrocephalus sufferer Sheri Burdine, Baby Klaus may get a second chance. With help from Hydro Angels, Baby Klaus is now receiving care at from neurosurgeons at the University of Texas Science Center in San Antonio, where, according to ABC News reports, doctors are slowly draining fluid from his brain.
Some one million Americans suffer from some form of hydrocephaly,
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