Encephalitis Cases

Lesley           
  Our 19 year old son is recovering from encephalitis. It started out with him being tired all the time. Then he started having pains in his back and upper neck. This went on for a while. The doctor told our son to go home and rest and eat healthy and to read a good book then they sent him to a PT.

His condition worsened. He started seeing double and triple vision. We started taking him to the ER, but they were to busy to actually treat him. During his visits to the ER they would put him on IV's and after what they considered was treatment they would tell us to take him home and tell us that if he did not feel better the next day to bring him back.

After they released him we took him back home and the next day he had a Gran Mal Seizure. Our son went into a coma. During this time in the hospital they decided to run CT scans and a MRI. They now stated that he had Encephalitis. After two days of being in a coma, our son slowly started to come around. They released him three days later without any type of evaluation. Of course at this time we did not know much about what or how encephalitis was going to affect our son's brain.

Since this time we have been reading any and every thing that we can get our hands on. I think back and I cannot believe how our son was treated. How could they not see the signs? Of course the family doctor says he is sorry, but that just doesn't cut it. We are very fortunate, our son only lost his short term memory, and jumps back to his childhood days, but we have our son and that is the most important thing.

"Is this the normal treatment for encephalitis?" It seemed like nobody wanted to help us. We want to tell the community so that this does not happen to another family. Do you have any advise you can share?

Lesley
Oregon, U.S.A.
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Posted: Sept. 3, 2000 		  adults cases

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