Bestwifeever
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Oh, my. Something that just comes out of nowhere with devastating results. Hoping for a full recovery.
Our prayers are with you and your SIL There is still a good chance of recovery even with some brain damage. My wife had a subarachnoid hemorrhage and recovered mostly from it and was able to function.Thanks but after reading about this I am not hopeful. Even with treatment most people die. Survivors are left with lasting brain damage. Only 2.5% of survivors escape with no brain damage. Not good.
Thanks but after reading about this I am not hopeful. Even with treatment most people die. Survivors are left with lasting brain damage. Only 2.5% of survivors escape with no brain damage. Not good.
Spinal tap and MRI have both come back negative for Encephalitis so we are back to square one
Spinal tap and MRI have both come back negative for Encephalitis so we are back to square one
I don't know yet. Her sister (my other SIL) is on her way into the hospital now and will update me. EEG shows that both temporal lobes are "sparking" which I would guess means she has brain activity and is not brain dead. They are thinking about taking her off the respirator today. All blood work came back as normal. I don't know where they go from here, but I will update as I find out more. Such a very strange situation.That sounds like good news but back to waiting for a diagnosis ...is she anymore alert today?
I have asked my other SIL to really push looking for a tick bite. Funny you mentioned House - my SIL and I just talked about how much we need him this morning.When my mom had that the tick bite last year, it was finally determined it was Ehrlichia Chaffeensis - tick borne rickettsial dz. This disease usually people under 10 and over 70, however. It took the doctors in the southern Ozarks seemingly forever to get the correct diagnosis. Because no one knew it was a tick bite at the time. They were off on the same Dr. House-like search that the OP has described. One of my nieces is a top level doctor in the East, and she 'helped' the local doctor. (I don't think he saw it that way). That diagnosis is also what a couple of the other older people in her church had. And it turns out there are both bacterial and viral tick borne diseases. Yikes. Here is an article that talks about the rise in tick borne diseases. Woman dies after contracting rare tick-borne virus | Fox News
edit: for reference, here is the CDC link to what my mom had https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/tickbornediseases/ehrlichiosis.html