strength & serenity

roses are red

I want to be very clear on this. You can be out drinking with your friends on Friday night and dead on Sunday because of meningitis. Does that sound a little specific? Guess why I have such a specific scenario in mind.

On a Friday night in the spring of 2002 I was hanging out with my friend Sean in the college dorms of UWEC. He felt fine.

Had an unvaccinated 2 year old come into the hospital, awake and alert, acting appropriately, within an hour she was having multiple seizures. We gave meds to stop them, put her in a medically induced coma, surgically placed a drain into her brain to try and relieve the increasing pressure as her brain was swelling (cerebral edema). I came back the next day and she was dead.