Soon after she was born
in a remote village in northeastern India, Roona was diagnosed with an
extreme form of hydrocephalus -- a disorder causing cerebral fluid to
build up in the brain.
Doctors had given Roona just a few months to live.
"Day-by-day, her head
started growing bigger, she stopped wanting to eat, she would just lie
in bed, it became very difficult for us to carry her and take her
anywhere," says Roona's father Abdul Rehman says.
Roona's head grew to a circumference of 94 centimeters, almost triple the size of a normal baby.
There were ten liters of excess fluid inside her brain. Her head was so heavy she could barely move.
Hydrocephalus is
more common among infants and older adults. The condition is caused by
overproduction, obstruction or lack of absorption of the cerebral fluid
in the brain.
