Day 175. I felt horrible all day. I had to go to a clients in the morning and I came right back home and got into bed. I tried to sleep. By 7pm my temperature started to rise. I watched it go from 99.2 to 99.6 to 99.9. That is when I called my neighbor. I needed to find someone to drive me to the ER and be able to walk my dogs if I was held for too long.
My neighbor came over and thank goodness he was thinking clearly because I was not. He had me walk him through how to feed and walk the dogs, feeding the fish and bird. I gave him a key and he took me to the ER.
I sat in the ER for about 1.5 hours in the waiting room with a mask on my face. Then I was taken in to a private room. Now the tests start. I was sent for a CAT scan, blood tests, urine test, chest x-ray, and my favorite and spinal tap. I have had a spinal tap before but this one did not go well. I won't go into the gory details but let's just say she didn't get where she needed to be on the first or second try.
They weren't sure what I had, if I was going to be admitted, such indecision. Twelve hours later they knew I had meningitis but now sure what kind and if it was contagious or not so I had to be admitted. I definitely did not have bacterial meningitis. If I had bacterial I would have been dead already because you have to get to an ER within 48 - 72 hours and it had already been more than 72 hours. So silver lining! No deadly disease.
I either had viral or aseptic meningitis. I had to wait for the petri dish to grow some stuff to tell us which one. That would take days.
Until tomorrow...
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