Viral Meningitis
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Anybody ever had it? I came down with it last Monday. Spent three days in bed with a crucifying and relentless migrain-style brain clench and vulcan neck pinch. More pain than I could really deal with and it just didn't end, no respite even for a second. Got to a doctor on Thursday, immediately referred to hospital where I had a spinal tap.
Bottom line is: If you get viral meningitis, it really hurts, hard, you cannot use your eyes at all as they feel like they've been hit by rubber bullets and you wont be able to eat or drink anything, at all, not even water, for about a week. I still have it now and it hurts like crazy, but it hurts a little less than last week.
- creative-0
That sucks. Meningitis is nasty stuff, good thing you didn't have the other more deadly version. I'm in bed with the flu right now so feeling 1/100 of your pain. Get well soon.
- blaw0
Feel better, spooky.
- ********0
Bad luck Creative.... Get well soon, and thanks Blaw. I am a bit better this week but oh god it hurts so much. In a bizarre way I really enjoyed some aspects of being in the hospital. Forced to forget about work completely for the first time in four years which was very refreshing, and also forced to do nothing but listen to what was going on around me.
People are fascinating, very odd and frequently hystericaly amusing in hospital. Through the pain I found myself laughing uncontrollaby at least once an hour.
- Hope you feel better man. Forget work, your brain is more important.slappy
- ian0
I was in a bookshop yesterday and saw a cover you had done, looked cool and made me think about how you hadn't been posting recently, so I guess that this explains it!
I did a search for 'feel better soon' and this came up, so hope you feel better soon chief! At least you're over the worst of it now.
- slappy0
Yeah I have quite liked being in hospital in the past, apart from the stitches and casts bit. Nurses are cool, they should get paid more.
- paraselene0
yikes! sounds nasty, take good care. and feel better soon!
- ********0
Oh, that book cover? Ah, that wasn't me. I didn't do it.
Thanks for the Get Well Soon picture though... I think. My brain is trying to fuse a conceptual bridging mesh between the image and the notion of getting well soon. It hurts to do that.
- The pic makes no sense, thought you might like it!
The book was lovers & losers, reals 80's style illo...ian
- The pic makes no sense, thought you might like it!
- Jaline0
That sounds horrible. Hope you are feeling better soon :)
- ********0
Nurses really are cool. I also had a really lovely medical student who was in taking notes (histories) on a sort of field trip and she bowled along just as I was freaking about having a spinal tap. She offered to stay with me and hold my hands while they did it, and I was really very grateful for that. She was young and incredibly beautiful and wore a really nice perfume and in my beleagured mental state she was as close as I think I'll ever get to understanding what an angel might be. After it was all over she went away and came back with a Snickers bar for me. I don't even like Snickers but the gesture really cracked open the bottle of emotion located behind my eyes. Everyone though in the hospital was really amazing and its a crime they don't get paid for what they do.
- I mean: dont get paid "better" for what they do.********
- Yeah, we criticise the hell out of the NHS, but when it comes to the crunch it's pretty good.creative-
- Awww...that's cute.Jaline
- yeah, obviously you weren't in a hospital here in the states. If you were, she woulda stolen your wallet during the tap.Point5
- I mean: dont get paid "better" for what they do.
- creative-0
So what are you up to? You sick of daytime TV yet?
- Raniator0
well done for not dying.
get well soon.
- ********0
What I'm up to:
Have been on the phone trying to renegotiate with clients of ongoing work. Also trying to catch up with new work enquiries that came in my absence. Not watching any TV. Been playing gently with my little girl and sporadically looking at QBN although the laptop screen really is very painful to look at, and typing is excrutiating.
- neue75_bold0
our thoughts and prayers are with you...
- rounce0
When I was at primary school a girl in my class got the deadly version and died after a couple of weeks and everyone had to get vaccinations and pills and stuff.
Get well soon dude...
...oh and if you do kick it can I have some of your accounts?
- ********0
rounce if you can get round here and pick up the jobs hanging in the air right now you can have ALL my accounts.
- slappy0
Stop working already!
P.S. Daughters are the best at helping dads heal, its a mental thing. Feel the love.
- JerseyRaindog0
Get well soon Spooky, that's nasty stuff.
- chossy0
Get weller soon :D
enjoy this, http://www.chossy.com/creesle2.m…
- b dchossy
- Thanks Chossy, that crazy trumpet robot needs a roborecorddeal.********
- GreedoLives0
When i was six i got mumps which developed into meningitis after about a week or so. I remember them trying to give me the spinal tap and trying to hide the needle from me so i wouldn't freak out, but i saw it and it was the longest needle i'd ever seen and i completely lost my shit, started screaming and trying to claw my way out of the room. Eventually they calmed me down enough to stick me with it and they told me that if i moved, the needle would break off in my spine and then i'd be in real trouble. And then they quarantined me for 5 weeks, of which i remember about three days. My parents could only talk to me through a glass wall, and everybody that came into my room had to wear face masks. It was horrible. Eventually i got well enough to try an escape attempt, my room wasn't locked so i tried to run after my parents one time they came to see me. The nurses had to chase me down and stick me back in my room, they looked scared as hell i think because they were worried about me contaminating the place. But yeah, what a horrible disease, i feel for you, but at least you're lucky to be alive. Hope you recover!
- eb60
You described it perfectly. I had it in high school and didn't open my eyes for 2 days. The description I gave the doctor was "pain helmet". Technically the covering around your brain swells. good stuff.
- Pain Helmet is right, apt, and for reasons I can't fathom, very funny too. Reminds me of Woody Allen for some reason.********
- Pain Helmet is right, apt, and for reasons I can't fathom, very funny too. Reminds me of Woody Allen for some reason.