Hi, @pennie. Glad to see you reach out for fellowship here on Mayo Clinic Connect. Sad that I don't have personal involvement to share with you, but a good friend has just spent more than a year in treatment and rehabilitation from normal-pressure hydrocephalus. She had a shunt installed and has worked through virtually all of the impediments her condition caused -- including the symptoms you mentioned and more -- and she is now nearly always comfortable in her old haunts among friends and neighbors around town. She says her success came from a good, communicative relationship with the best specialist on hydrocephalus on the East Coast. He practices in Richmond, Virginia -- only 100 miles away from her home. Can you visualize yourself tracking down a real expert to work with?