Me...as patient zero?
10 years ago
General
Alright before I tell my tales of the terrible fever and the hellish hospital I went to, I must please ask forgiveness to my friends and those few commissioners for my absence. I was way too ill to be able to respond and I trully am sorry for dissapering like this.
Day 1:
I woke up monday morning feeling very hot and my body was aching a bit. Of course I just shook it off thinking I was aching because of how I slept and it would soon fade away when I continued off to school, but as the day went on and on...it only got worse and worse until the point I just walked off campus of my school and drove myself home during lunch.
By the time i got home, my body felt warm as hell but I was shivering and everything felt so god damn cold...despite that I live in the blistering desert and its mid summer! I passed out and woke up with my parents panicing. They tok my temperature and it was about 103 degrees. Of course they took me off to the hospital and at the time I really didnt care, I just wanted to go to sleep and cover myself up. I arrived to urgernt care in the hopistal and they gave me liquids to lower my temperature.
They did the old hospital check procdeures they alays do but of course they couldnt understand why the hell my body aches and i had a sever temperature...now seatong no bumps no rashes and not even a cough...they couldnt tell what i had...and thats when it all went downhill.
Now I've been to this hospital before...and it's terrible. It's one of the worst in the state and the last time i came there they wantedd to use a freaking cat-scan on me...when all i had was a simple diaherra problem and just needed to drink lots of liquids...hell they even gave me medicine for bronchiotus at some point...so this was a very bad hospital but we still had to go because of the fact that this was the only place where my insurance covered.
Anyways back to me in the hopital, they started to hook me up with an IV and i absoutly hated the damn thing. t feltlike they were forcing pure ice crystals into my body when i was already burning up. What was worse was that while i laid in bed, they poked and proded me when i all wished for was some rest. They checked up on my temperature again and this time i spiked to 106 and instead of handling the situtation profeesionally, the nurse grabbed the doctor saying my brain was literally boiling and that i needed a ice bath. Of course my parents were there and they freaked out thinking i was going to die and so they took me off. I honestly couldnt feel anything at that point because i felt so hot. The doctor asked me if i could walk and i could with a little help by grabbing the walls a bit, he let me take a cold shower rather then go fast first into one of these special tubs that was FILLED with frozen ice cubes.
I can't rmeber much after the shower since it was a blur, but at somepoint i went off to sleep at the hospital. Now this is the scariest and most frighting thing that happned to me was at this moment. I was resting in bed and i felt like someone was slowly giving me a bear hug around my chest. I tried getting up but the nearby nurse pinned my chest down ans asked me if i was alright. Of course at this point i was dazed, havig a fever-induced paranoia, and tired so of course i said no to her and I couldnt find my vocabulay to say "i need to stand up its getting hard to breath" but all i managed to say was "cant breath, chest heavy".
Now this of course meade the nurse think i was going to have a heart attack, and once again goes holloering around that i needed defibs. Of course im shaking a no at her and trying to get up but shes pinning me down still and the nurses come in with the chest paddles. At that point i got really...really scared because I've recently had a dear friend lose someone special to a heart attack..and if i went out the same way...then im not sure how the hell that would drive my friend crazy and mad. Of course my doctor, i guess my savior now, rushes and stops the whole thing and sets me up. Natualy i start to breath again and my heart pace lowers and everything went back to norma...well execpt for the bruning body and paranioa feeling that nurse left me.
Now soemhwer around midnight, the moved me to an isolation room where a plastic covered the neterance. The reason why they put me there was because 3 people came in with the same symptoms as me...but of course the idiots would soon find out they all had something different and not at all similar to what I had. At that point I thought I was patient zero for something because i could hear the nurses and nearby doctos saying theyve never seen anything like this befoe and if they should contact my school to be aware of this. They would move me back out later hwen they found out its not infectious as they thought it was, but as i rested there looking at how the nurses dresses on these special disposable clothes, I couldnt help but feel scared and awed. The reason why I was scared because...you know...could I be the first to have been conatct of a new virus...and awe because...well...how often does it happen that your the reason that started the zombie apocolpse..cool right? (I know its not cool at all but hey...I WAS HAVING A FEVER)
After that nightmare, i woke up with lips cracked and a bit of my teeth showing because of the shrunken lips, i couldnt hold my head straight up because i would go nasues and my neck muscles would cramp, so i always had it on my shoulder. Everything i drank (like water) felt like...it felt like that bitter taste when you take a pill and drink water after it...that sorta plasticy and clay tatse was left on my mouth. Food tasted like garbage but meat on the other hand, it didnt tade 100 percent good...but it was warm and a bit soothing in my jaws so thats al i could pretty much swallow without wanting to puke it out.
There were at some points on my stay were i started to hallucinate voices in my head. Now this sint the "kill them all jhonnry" kinda voices. It felt like had multiple self conious crowded in my head and they will say stuff like "your cold..cover yourself" when i reeally...really wasnt supposed to because i was already burning up. Things like that kept wracking in my head. It was a very...very uncomfortable feeling.
Before breakfast, the doctors gave me a pill to keep me awake because they wished to exam me a bit. Now this...pil...or whatver the hell it was...DID NOT WORK. All it did was increase my heart rate a light speed and yet my body felt exhasuted. The only was i can describe is it when you see something frightful and you freeze up. Your body is producng the adrenline yet your frozen...well thats how i felt in bed. It was an awfull awfull feeling...at one point... I could literallt feel my face beating LIKE IT WAS A HEART!
Anywas I left home just in time to get ready and go back to school around 3rd period. I slowly regained my motor skills back and taste, but still i have to come to the hospital every afternoon to check to see if im feeling better and that I heavnt boiled any brain cells. As I right this I feel really..really comftorable knowing that im back to normal and feeling angry at how the hospital handled the whole sickness poorly...never again will i gothere...
anyways thank you forreading what i had to go through...I hope you never experince what I had!
Day 1:
I woke up monday morning feeling very hot and my body was aching a bit. Of course I just shook it off thinking I was aching because of how I slept and it would soon fade away when I continued off to school, but as the day went on and on...it only got worse and worse until the point I just walked off campus of my school and drove myself home during lunch.
By the time i got home, my body felt warm as hell but I was shivering and everything felt so god damn cold...despite that I live in the blistering desert and its mid summer! I passed out and woke up with my parents panicing. They tok my temperature and it was about 103 degrees. Of course they took me off to the hospital and at the time I really didnt care, I just wanted to go to sleep and cover myself up. I arrived to urgernt care in the hopistal and they gave me liquids to lower my temperature.
They did the old hospital check procdeures they alays do but of course they couldnt understand why the hell my body aches and i had a sever temperature...now seatong no bumps no rashes and not even a cough...they couldnt tell what i had...and thats when it all went downhill.
Now I've been to this hospital before...and it's terrible. It's one of the worst in the state and the last time i came there they wantedd to use a freaking cat-scan on me...when all i had was a simple diaherra problem and just needed to drink lots of liquids...hell they even gave me medicine for bronchiotus at some point...so this was a very bad hospital but we still had to go because of the fact that this was the only place where my insurance covered.
Anyways back to me in the hopital, they started to hook me up with an IV and i absoutly hated the damn thing. t feltlike they were forcing pure ice crystals into my body when i was already burning up. What was worse was that while i laid in bed, they poked and proded me when i all wished for was some rest. They checked up on my temperature again and this time i spiked to 106 and instead of handling the situtation profeesionally, the nurse grabbed the doctor saying my brain was literally boiling and that i needed a ice bath. Of course my parents were there and they freaked out thinking i was going to die and so they took me off. I honestly couldnt feel anything at that point because i felt so hot. The doctor asked me if i could walk and i could with a little help by grabbing the walls a bit, he let me take a cold shower rather then go fast first into one of these special tubs that was FILLED with frozen ice cubes.
I can't rmeber much after the shower since it was a blur, but at somepoint i went off to sleep at the hospital. Now this is the scariest and most frighting thing that happned to me was at this moment. I was resting in bed and i felt like someone was slowly giving me a bear hug around my chest. I tried getting up but the nearby nurse pinned my chest down ans asked me if i was alright. Of course at this point i was dazed, havig a fever-induced paranoia, and tired so of course i said no to her and I couldnt find my vocabulay to say "i need to stand up its getting hard to breath" but all i managed to say was "cant breath, chest heavy".
Now this of course meade the nurse think i was going to have a heart attack, and once again goes holloering around that i needed defibs. Of course im shaking a no at her and trying to get up but shes pinning me down still and the nurses come in with the chest paddles. At that point i got really...really scared because I've recently had a dear friend lose someone special to a heart attack..and if i went out the same way...then im not sure how the hell that would drive my friend crazy and mad. Of course my doctor, i guess my savior now, rushes and stops the whole thing and sets me up. Natualy i start to breath again and my heart pace lowers and everything went back to norma...well execpt for the bruning body and paranioa feeling that nurse left me.
Now soemhwer around midnight, the moved me to an isolation room where a plastic covered the neterance. The reason why they put me there was because 3 people came in with the same symptoms as me...but of course the idiots would soon find out they all had something different and not at all similar to what I had. At that point I thought I was patient zero for something because i could hear the nurses and nearby doctos saying theyve never seen anything like this befoe and if they should contact my school to be aware of this. They would move me back out later hwen they found out its not infectious as they thought it was, but as i rested there looking at how the nurses dresses on these special disposable clothes, I couldnt help but feel scared and awed. The reason why I was scared because...you know...could I be the first to have been conatct of a new virus...and awe because...well...how often does it happen that your the reason that started the zombie apocolpse..cool right? (I know its not cool at all but hey...I WAS HAVING A FEVER)
After that nightmare, i woke up with lips cracked and a bit of my teeth showing because of the shrunken lips, i couldnt hold my head straight up because i would go nasues and my neck muscles would cramp, so i always had it on my shoulder. Everything i drank (like water) felt like...it felt like that bitter taste when you take a pill and drink water after it...that sorta plasticy and clay tatse was left on my mouth. Food tasted like garbage but meat on the other hand, it didnt tade 100 percent good...but it was warm and a bit soothing in my jaws so thats al i could pretty much swallow without wanting to puke it out.
There were at some points on my stay were i started to hallucinate voices in my head. Now this sint the "kill them all jhonnry" kinda voices. It felt like had multiple self conious crowded in my head and they will say stuff like "your cold..cover yourself" when i reeally...really wasnt supposed to because i was already burning up. Things like that kept wracking in my head. It was a very...very uncomfortable feeling.
Before breakfast, the doctors gave me a pill to keep me awake because they wished to exam me a bit. Now this...pil...or whatver the hell it was...DID NOT WORK. All it did was increase my heart rate a light speed and yet my body felt exhasuted. The only was i can describe is it when you see something frightful and you freeze up. Your body is producng the adrenline yet your frozen...well thats how i felt in bed. It was an awfull awfull feeling...at one point... I could literallt feel my face beating LIKE IT WAS A HEART!
Anywas I left home just in time to get ready and go back to school around 3rd period. I slowly regained my motor skills back and taste, but still i have to come to the hospital every afternoon to check to see if im feeling better and that I heavnt boiled any brain cells. As I right this I feel really..really comftorable knowing that im back to normal and feeling angry at how the hospital handled the whole sickness poorly...never again will i gothere...
anyways thank you forreading what i had to go through...I hope you never experince what I had!
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Boo I'm glad you're feeling better. Stay safe&sweet.♡
Aw thank you for that sweet comnent, I hope your doing good too :3