24-10-2003 18:30									#1
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Been having some fevers..really bad head-aches & nausea for about a week.

finally dragged myself to the local doctor, who did not really know what to do as I was already taking the strongest medication he was willing to prescribe...and they weren't working.

Decided to send me to the Emergency Department for some blood tests etc.

I walked in at 2.00pm.
They had head CT scans and blood tests by 4.00pm.. both negative.

So they decided to do a lumbar puncture and take some spinal fluid around 5.00pm
While doing it, they said that my spinal fluid pressure was high…which was causing the headaches.

Then spent 2 hours waiting for the results of the tests.

7.00pm, Yep…white blood cells in the spinal fluid were very high, so I had an infection.
But they had no-one available to look at the slides to tell if it was bacterial or viral.
They called someone back to the hospital, and a couple of hours later, confirmed that he was 95% sure it was viral.
So that’s bad…no antibiotics for me…just observation, and they still did not know what the virus was.

So… they tried to get a bed for me in the hospital.
At 4.00am, I was still lying on a hospital gurney in the Emergency Room.
Finally got some chest x-rays, and a bed at 4.15am.

Got woken up at 6.00am for pain medication.
Doctors (proper ones – not the ER ones) finally started turning up.
They think I have a “meningitis type” viral infection….but are unsure of what sort…it takes a few days.

But as I am not dead or dieing, they figure it must be reasonably harmless, and send me home.

The fevers are gone, and so is the nausea, but the headaches remain.
Especially, when I look at a PC monitor, when it feels like someone is jamming hot needles into my eyes.

So…guys… I gotta take another week or so off. Looking at the PC monitor is killing me.
Hope everything is going well, I will check in very soon.

	25-10-2003 01:55									#2
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Get better soon H_E... We're sure you'll get through this fine.

--Kon--

	26-10-2003 18:23									#3
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Wow!

You take care of yourself H_E, and get better soon. That's an order, ape.

We will be thinking of you.

*Beta sets a kiwi fruit aside for H_E's return.

	03-11-2003 14:41									#4
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Hey,

Just to let everyone know...

I did indeed have viral meningitus.
Luckily, this is normally quite harmless.

Kids get it all the time, and just shrug it off.
When adults get it, it takes 1-2 weeks

It took me about 10 days before my headaches & fevers disappeared. But then just as I was feeling better, the damn disease ridden kids brought home a chest cold.

With my immune system already down for the count, the chest cold hit me like a tonne of bricks.

Anyway... I am around 90% back to normal health.
And will start to get back into the team.

I have the save, but I think I will let Beta or Konquest play it, as I am not up to date with the latest moves.

Thanks for the kiwi Beta.

Hot_Enamel

	04-11-2003 06:06									#5
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Glad to hear it you are feeling better. Meningitis can be dangerous.

I have had a crappy couple of weeks as well. What I thought was a spider bite on my back, and then a fungal infection, and then exzema, turned out to be shingles - the adult form of chicken pox. Also a viral infection. Caused by stress they figure. If you knew my day job you would understand.

Anyway, it is very very uncomfortable, but the anti-viral drugs and the oatmeal baths (yes - brand name Alveeno - something called colloidal oatmeal - and it smells just like a bowl of oatmeal - one of the cats loves it - sits on the side of the tubs and labs it up. ) seem to be working.

Maybe there is something going around our jungle here.

Hope everyone else is feeling OK.

	04-11-2003 07:27									#6
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Ya that Alveeno stuff works great.

I get poison Ivy and one of my kids does too. That works wonders for it.

I think H_E and Beat are just getting old.

(I ought to talk I have been working on a new driveway and then fixing the yard after all the work and my back has been singing for two weeks.)

Kon your lucky your still a kid! Old age is hell!

I hope everyone is doing better soon.