Coping With Encephalitis

I was up all night with this horrible headache. I went up to my parents room and told them that i had the worst headache of my life. My mom just thought it was a migraine so she told me to lay down. I ran into the bathroom about five minutes later and threw up. I walked over to my mom and i told her my arms were numb. She said to go downstairs and so i did.

This is the part i have vague recollections of. She was talking to me and i was not responding coherently. I started to walk out the back door with no reason. She called an ambulance because the realized something was very wrong. When the EMT’s first saw me they thought i was having a stroke So they rushed me to Southwest General Hospital. I was transferred from doctor to doctor with no avail. Then one doctor saw me and knew right away what i had. They thought that they were going to lose me a couple of times. I was transferred to a different hospital one that had an intensive care unit for children.

I am sixteen and this happened in december, but for some reason i am still considered a child. I was taken to University Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. I live in a suburb outside of Cleveland. I was there for a week and was carefully monitored. I had to have a lumbar puncture and was on four intravenous antibiotics. I am lucky to be alive i was told. I am doing better now but still have reocurring headaches. That at times are excruciating. I am doing a little better now it is March at it was just the four month anniversary of my time of being diagnosed.