Haha it sounds like it mr Papper! Mom further has genuine plumbing with a valve we have to check from time to time inside that little head of hers (called a VP shunt), this drains the cranial fluid that gets blocked by the golf ball sized acoustic thing! If she wasn't so fit her body would not have coped that well, only affects her balance and hearing. And she's stubborn, will not use a walking stick or any other aid besides holding onto rails or walls or my arm when we go out. She shoves me away however as soon as she finds something to hold onto :):)
Luckily she's tiny and must have strong bones; she does not have too far to fall and comes off it with just a scrape and a bruise, she however hides some of her falls from us, Miss Independence she is!