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I wish the best for you and your daughter.
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Hope everything will be alright!
Good luck!Comment
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My wife, who is a nurse in our local emergency room, immediately said meningitis, based on the symptoms above. Our thoughts are with you and your family at this time!Originally posted by Tiamat
Good idea about our doctor's.....symptoms: high fever 103 that it takes about 3 hours to break and stays broken for about an hour and then shoots back up, back and leg aches, horrible sweeling in throat, puss all over the back of the throat, can't swallow, can't keep anything down, lymph nodes swollen horribly, lots of pain.
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Good luck, Tia.What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?Comment
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Just adding myself to the list of people who wishes you and your family well. Keep us informed and be brave."The world is too small in Vorarlberg". Austrian ex-vice-chancellor Hubert Gorbach in a letter to Alistar [sic] Darling, looking for a job...
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menegitis was my immediate take also. When you first listed symptoms. I'm not a doc tho...Comment
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Hope she gets better, Tia.
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Bring a strong, positive book to read to her...maybe something she loved as a child...I read over my father's hospital bed for weeks (Marcus Aurelius) and it seemed to work.
Best wishes from mine to yours.Life and death is a grave matter;
all things pass quickly away.
Each of you must be completely alert;
never neglectful, never indulgent.Comment
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When you say they've done every test possible, does that include a spinal tap? That's the definitive test for most types of meningitis. If that's negative you can exclude the more virulent bacterial meningitidies, unless she's been partially treated with antibiotics for a period of time. Viral illnesses are another possibility. The prognosis for viral meningitis is usually better.
Ooops, didn't see the part about the spinal tap. If she's in and out of conciousness or depressed, then she's not able to give informed consent and the procedure may be done with your permission as next of kin. Sorry to lay this on you, but if there is a possibility of bacterial meningitis treatment has to begin now.Last edited by Dr Strangelove; May 9, 2002, 18:03."I say shoot'em all and let God sort it out in the end!Comment
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Strength to you and your daughter and wisdom to doctors treating her.In da butt.
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good luck Tia.Comment
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Hope things turn out okay,
Best of luckSkeptics should forego any thought of convincing the unconvinced that we hold the torch of truth illuminating the darkness. A more modest, realistic, and achievable goal is to encourage the idea that one may be mistaken. Doubt is humbling and constructive; it leads to rational thought in weighing alternatives and fully reexamining options, and it opens unlimited vistas.
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Hope, luck and love to you and your family, Tia."It woulda been nice to have naked midgets serving us cocktails everyday." - Brandon Boyd of Incubus
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I know that if she's anything like her mama, she'll be well enough to play "hide the thermometer" with the male nurses by the next morning.
Give her my best luv, hope and love and chocolate to both of you.
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Any news? You are all in our thoughts.No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.Comment
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