Three days ago I woke up feeling like I had whiplash. My neck still
hurts really badly and is very stiff. That’s why I haven’t been online
since it hurts to hold my head up to look at the computer. I was hoping
it would pass, but nothing has been helping and I’m also having weird
headaches, fevers and chills. I am very very nauseous and feel really
shaky. The headaches are different from my regular ones. I finally
called my specialist, he said I need to go to the ER and I got chastised
for not calling the 1st day this started because that’s when a spinal
tap would be most useful. I don’t want to go to the hospital, but it
looks like I have to. I’m waiting for my mother-in-law to be able to
come over to watch the kids.
It is not fun being me right now. In addition to the possibility of
meningitis, I also had a tooth break into pieces the other day on the
one said that still wasn’t too messed up to eat with. I cannot do
anything about it right now except buy temporary filling goop from the
drug store to try to keep it covered.
I will try to update about what’s going on with my poor brain when I
get back home from the hospital if I can or as soon as I am able. Please
keep me in your prayers, and also, please
hit the tip jar if you can because I know that this is going to be expensive. Thanks. Wish me luck.
UPDATE – August 16, 2012:
Thank you to everyone who prayed for me and to the couple of people
who hit my tip jar – as it turns out, I forgot that my gas tank was
empty before I left for the hospital, so you really did help a lot right
away!
I still don’t know if I have/had meningitis; there are 3 types,
bacterial (very contagious and deadly), viral (very contagious, less
deadly), and “aseptic” (which could be caused by something else, like a
fungal infection or even medications, isn’t contagious and not usually
as deadly as the other 2 kinds). It is not uncommon for people with tick
diseases to get the 3rd kind, and some of those people have chronic
forms of that type of meningitis and they even get chronic encephalitis.
I do not know if this is what caused my fever, chills, headache and
horrible neck pain, because while the hospital people were initially
very professional and respectful, once I had to tell them what
medications I am on and WHY I am on antibiotics, that all went out the
freaking window and it was if someone had flipped a switch – suddenly
they decided, without even looking at me, that there was nothing wrong
with me, they laughed at me right to my face, and I could hear the
nurses mocking me from a few feet away because they talked among
themselves about me as if I wasn’t even there.
READ MORE ON ZILLA'S BAD ER EXPERIENCE!
A
crazed man, wielding a Kalashnikov-type assault rifle tried to force
his way thru the artist entrance of the Metropolis theater, where
freshly elected lefty Pauline Marois was giving her victory speech,
throwing a smoke bomb and a Molotov cocktail. 2 sound and light techs
were at the door at the time, who are said to have tried to keep the
madman out, were shot. 1 dead, 1 in serious condition. The suspect's
truck is being searched as I write this.
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