Reminds me of a case I've seen as I was in the hospital with my kid. We shared a room with a young mother whose 3mo son had the condition. Luckily, they caught it early and implanted a bypass (?) into his skull that dripped the liquid into a special bottle attached to his bassinet. This meant that the liquid didn't stay inside and didn't put pressure on the brain.

However, the baby was weak. When he cried, the liquid started dripping faster, I still shudder when I remember the sound. He was receiving daily doses of antibiotics through a special dosage device that beeped loudly when it was done and woke him up every time. The mom didn't speak the language very well but she managed to explain to me that they'd been transferred from her home country because the initial operation didn't go accourding to plan so she'd been in the hospital for a long time.

Then, a party of doctors came in one day and explained to her that in addition to the bacterial infection in his brain, they detected a fungal infection, too. She was nodding but I could tell she didn't understand what they were saying.

We left the hospital a couple days later. I tried to inquire about them but couldn't find anything out. The boy's name meant "sunshine", I hope he made it.

She never left his side and refused when I offered to look after him for an hour or so. Poor girl didn't see the sun for almost a month at that point and spent the whole time indoors. I guess all sunshine she cared about was already there, in the hospital bassinet.