Collin was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy on one side of his body and developmental delays. Collin went through some difficult times, and when he was 11 months old he had a valve added to his shunt and was hospitalized again. In March of 2007 Collin was hospitalized again with concerns of infections and again in November of 2007. In 2008 Collin was hospitalized 4 times with concerns of infections. In December of 2008 we visited the ER in Carroll at least once a week and sometimes two times a week. One day we were in the ER twice, once in the morning and got taken by ambulance that night to Des Moines. Then in the past year (2009) Collin has been hospitalized 5 times within 6 months. Collin has had 6 surgeries and 4 surgeries were within 3 weeks of each other. His VP shunt has not been working correctly. Doctors have informed us that chances are we will need to replace the shunt again. We discovered that Collin has small ventricles in his head which are hard to treat. Collin has been in an ambulance at least 7 times in just 3 years of his life.  He was life flown once to Des Moines when he was first born. He has been life flown to Mayo in Rochester, MN twice and the last time was August 3rd, 2009, when we were in ICU for a week. Collin underwent two surgeries in one week while in Mayo. This last year we have visited our local doctor at least 3 to 4 times each month and that does not include any specialist that we have seen or hospitalizations. Collin attends therapy 3 times weekly between St. Anthony’s Hospital and Timber Creek. He goes to a Cerebral Palsy Specialty Hospital in Minnesota every 6 months for injections (16 shots) into his legs and muscles to help him relax.