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| Gerona |
Hi. I acquired Herpes Encephalitis at age 11 during Sixth grade, 1994. Full symptoms of the virus
hit on Halloween night. I was hospitalized after I was found in a full seizure mode while locked in the
bathroom at a Halloween party. I was hospitalized in the UCLA medical center, California, and was
kept in Intensive care for a month and a half. Symptoms: raging fever, short-term memory loss,
seizure (only one in my life, that night) and hives. It was enough to be told that I might loose my life.
Doctors came from around the globe analyzing me, and I received counseling to get my memory
back together. I took medicine through IV-treatment. I was finally remembering who I was, it gave
hope to the doctors that I would live, and was released December 16th. 1994. Still being concerned
with my care, doctors preferred me to return to school but through the Special Education unit. My
parents and my teachers did not approve. I was tutored by my science and history teachers to
catch up on what I missed.
I recently had a bout of the virus resurrecting in 1998 while in 9th grade as I was forgetting my class schedule, I did not know what I did yesterday and
I was forgetting the date/day of the week, I just had a big load to handle during that year so I transferred out of Malibu High, an hour away, to
Santa Monica High. Now, I still forget some things like what I did or what happened yesterday, and anything I do not have written down. The only disability
from the virus is on my photographic memory, I have to remember things through pictures but all my pictures are fuzzy and don't help me remember.
Doctors were stunned with how I got the virus. They narrowed it down to either a mosquito bite,
or sex which is not hard to answer, I knew I did not suddenly loose my virginity at age 11. So I
assume I was infected by a mosquito.
Thanks for this site,
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Gerona
California, U.S.A.
Posted: January 9, 2001 |
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