Encephalitis Cases

Sharon           
  My name is sharon known as shaz, I live in England. 5 years ago this summer I had a severe headache, as I get migraines I just ignored it. Acouple of days later it was still there I sat up till late. That saved my life, for as I got up to turn the tv off I fell, although my right side felt normal I couldn't move it.

I crawled to the phone but when I tried to speak I sounded so slurred nobody could understand a word I said my stepdaughter was upstairs in bed so I crawled through the hall and tried to get upstairs I had to hold onto the spindles it took ages to reach the top as I fell a few times. I got to the top and managed to wake her as I couldn't speak I gestured to her for a pen and managed to write "help".

I remember being rushed to hospital having a seizure. I came round 2 weeks later in ICU, I could only blink. I'm told I was given 2 lumbar punctures a cat scan MRI scan and an eeg. I was in ICU for 2 weeks I woke with a tracheotomy in as they had tried me on a ventilator and I had clamped my mouth so tight I couldn't breathe I spent a further 3 months on a high dependency unit where gradually I regained a little movement on my left side altogether I was in hospital for 15 months.

Today I'm in a wheelchair I cant move my right side I cant talk and there isn't much I can do for myself, but I'm thankful for being able to move a little.

Sharon
U.K.
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Posted: Feb 22, 2006 		  adults cases

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