Tag: survivor
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Day Eight of Encephalitis and New Directions
Friday, February 3, 2017 Lumbar Puncture… I almost didn’t go. The doctor who declared two days before that I’d had a seizure also decided that I should go to the Urgent Care Neurological Centre (UCNC) in London (not London, UK… London, ON). Since I didn’t want to believe that I’d had a…
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Day Seven of Encephalitis and New Directions
Thursday, February 2, 2017 On Thursday, the doctor I didn’t like, the one who thought I’d had a seizure, sent me for a CAT scan of my brain. I think it was around the time of the seizure the day before that my memory started to get a little sketchier, so a fair…
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Day Six of Encephalitis and New Directions
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 When I look back on the entire experience, Wednesday morning was, to me, the turning point. That was the day when everything changed. My wife and I sat at the table together eating breakfast. We homeschooled our boys, so they were not only home, but within sight, offering them…
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Day Five of Encephalitis and New Directions
Tuesday, January 31, 2017 By Tuesday, the pain was horrible. I struggled a lot with it and had to have repeated naps. Dealing with the pain was one thing, but when the exhaustion hit so hard, we knew we faced something bigger than pink eye. We still didn’t have an answer as…