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| Heather |
Hi! My name is Heather. I contracted encephalitis in 1968 at 9 months old. The doctors called it focal encephalitis cause only part of my brain swelled.
It was caused by a mosquito.
I now live in Hamilton, Ohio, but I was visiting my grandparents in Florida when it happened. I don't know too much about
what happened. But my mom told me that I had a fever of 106, and that it lasted for 12 days. The doctors had to strap me to a bed of ice with a tent
over me and air tubes pumping cold air thru them.
The prognosis that my parents received was that I would probably have severe brain damage. I fooled
them. I only have nerve damage to the right side of my face. I look like I have bells palsy all the time, I have complete feeling, only lack of muscle
control. The only other problem that I have is if I get any kind of a fever or illness the right side of my face swells a bit and becomes kind of
numb. I just want people to know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. And that there is hope!
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Heather
Hamilton, Ohio U.S.A.
Posted: March 15, 2003 |
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