Gabriel's Life

Help us get a Gabriel’s Life Sticker on the set of “Grey’s Anatomy.”
Donate to Gabriel’s Life Sticker Campaign (www.gabrielslife.org) for $12. We will send you two stickers. Keep one and give the other to your neurosurgeon, take a picture of them with the sticker and email it Gabriel’s Life, we will post it to our site.  A third sticker will be sent to a staff or cast member of ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” along with a copy of your hydrocephalus story as it is posted on the Gabriel’s Life site.

Why are we doing this?
We want more awareness of hydrocephalus within our community and the general public. This campaign will create opportunities for awareness on local and national levels and encourage the hydrocephalus community to think about solving the challenges of hydrocephalus in a new way.

How can you help?

• Buy the stickers
• Share your story
• Ask your friends to buy stickers and be ambassadors for our campaign
• If you have Patrick Dempsey’s phone number, please pass it along!

• Follow updates on this campaign on Facebook
• Follow updates on Twitter

Why does it make sense for a ABC and “Grey’s Anatomy” to care about hydrocephalus? Why should a Gabriel’s Life sticker appear on a prime time hospital television series?
The main character on ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” is a neurosurgeon, Derrick Shepherd, played by Patrick Dempsey. Because of the frequent failure of shunts (the dominant treatment for hydrocephalus) and the need for them to be revised, surgeries related to hydrocephalus and shunts are considered the “bread and butter” of neurosurgery. Because the Dempsey character would be very familiar with hydrocephalus (hydrocephalus has been included in two episodes) it makes sense that he would also know and support the mission on Gabriel’s Life. He would have and display a Gabriel’s Life sticker, on his locker, or laptop or desk. We are not asking that a storyline be created around Gabriel’s Life, we simply want the logo to be treated like a product placement on the set.