This last week has been very freaky for me. Last Saturday I went to bed feeling just fine. I woke up Sunday morning with a very high fever, chills, headache, sick to my stomach, and I couldn't really stand up. I thought I must have the flu. I continued to feel worse. Lucky for me my husband (we are separated) decided to check in on me after he called and I told him I was sick. He convinced me to go to the hospital. After I had my kid's father pick them up, he rushed me up there.
Once there they found I was running a fever of 104.9! They decided to do a kat-scan (sp?), a spinal tap, some blood cultures, and they proceeded to apply an IV with antibiotics. They sent me home to wait for the blood work to come back.
On Monday they phoned my husband and told him to rush me to the hospital...I had a bacterial infection in my blood and it was growing rapidly. At the hospital they told me I had Meningococcal, which is can turn into Meningitis if not caught on time. They immediately ran an IV in me and continued to feed antibiotics into my bloodstream the whole time I was there. All I could do was sleep most of the time until Thursday. My doctor told me I am very very lucky for going in when I did. Had I waited another day....it could have been fatal!
Five days later, I have been discharged from the hospital. Except for when I had my two children, I have never spent time in the hospital. I am a healthy woman, so this was very scary and alarming to me. I never realized how vulnerable we all are. One day one may feel healthy and normal, then next one may be gone.
This is a very rare disease which is spread by a simple sneeze or a cough. We are all carriers of this bacteria. It just takes off on some for unknown reasons. I know this much....I see life a little differently know!
