That night, while the rest of my family was in the living room watching TV, I lay in my bed burning up with fever. Later that evening my uncle stopped in my room to say goodnight and found me with my eyes wide open and hardly breathing. He called my parents who immediately began mouth-to-mouth and called an ambulance. For the next 5 days or so, I was in various degrees of consciousness and continually hallucinated. My parents told me later that they would visit me in the hospital and I would say very strange things about things that I was seeing which didn't exist. All the time I was kept on a cold sheet and given suppositories to bring down the fever.

After 5 days or so my temperature stayed down at normal and I was able to go home from the hospital a few days later. My parents were told that I may have brain damage and so for several years I had various tests including EEG's a number of times. The only lasting affect that I'm aware of is occasional disorientation and memory lapses. It's generally brought on by extreme stress or tiredness or on some occasions 'bad air'.