Encephalitis Cases
Nathan
At 10pm I put him up to bed and tucked him in and gave him a kiss. About 3am I awoke for some reason and went to see how he was, to my horror I found him convulsing in his bed. He was rushed to hospital where they did not have a clue what was wrong with him. In the time he was at this hospital he had about 4 fits down one side to which I did not know at the time.
Because they did not know what was wrong with Nathan, they transferred him to another hospital the day after and by this time he was unconscious. Once at the hospital they took him to ICU and put him on a life support. I stayed at the hospital all week at his bed side praying to god to let him live or for god to take me instead. The time came and there was nothing more that they could do for him nor me. They said he was brain stem dead and that just the machine was keeping him alive. At this time I did not have a clue what to do until a doctor took me aside and talked to me about another little boy on the ward who's mum I had got friendly with. Her little boy had been in a week longer than Nathan and was swelling very bad to his head and other things that I don't want to go into but you can imagine what I mean with the pressure building up in his head so this helped me to make my mind up, and allowed the doctors to switch off the machine, and this was the hardest day of my life and ill never forget it. This was in 1993, he died of encephalitis. Nadine
Gt Harwood, UK
Posted: August 06, 2004
