Welcome to Emma's Jellybeans 2024 Team Page!

Please join our team and WALK with us to End Hydrocephalus! 18 Brain Surgeries or more than anyone deserves and that has been Emma's reality for all her life and the likelihood of many more. We need more research, support, education and advocacy but to do that we need your help. Every dollar makes a difference and it is always put to good use trying to better the lives of those with Hydrocephalus. Please consider joining us. 

 We are in this together, we WALK for all of those with Hydrocephalus, we WALK so that some day we will be able to cure and prevent hydrocephalus and the affects it has on all those who endure. We want you to join us and make this a reality in Emma's lifetime. So please consider joining us. 

This event is very dear to our hearts as we are walking on behalf of our loved ones who are living with hydrocephalus and the constant fear that their shunt could fail at any moment. As you may know, hydrocephalus is a life altering, life threatening condition, caused by an abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid, resulting in pressure on the brain. The most common treatment for this condition is brain surgery to implant a medical device called a shunt, which has a 50% failure rate in children within the first two years. A shunt is not a cure as its consistent failures lead to multiple brain surgeries over a patient’s lifetime, in some cases 100 or more. This is unacceptable and this is WHY WE WALK. Please join our team, donate and help us reach our goal. Your donation is greatly appreciated and will go far in helping us find a cure and improve the lives of people living with hydrocephalus.

Thank you!