Saturday, August 31, 2013
My husband and I went to a funeral for a friend’s mother. I got dressed and felt great that
morning. After the service we went to
the friend’s home for lunch. The food
was delicious but after eating I started to feel nauseous so I told my husband
we needed to go home. We had thought
about driving up to the lake for the rest of the weekend but I didn’t feel well
enough to go so we stayed home and I layed around the rest of Labor Day weekend.
On Tuesday morning I got up and dressed for work. I still wasn’t feeling well and had a bad
headache. A conference call was
scheduled with staff from my offices in Amarillo, Lubbock, Midland and El Paso
but I decided to make the call from home since I didn’t feel good. When the call started one of my employees
said that’s okay Denese we can handle the call why don’t you rest. I got off the call and sat in my desk chair
where my daughter found me passed out shortly afterward.
She got me to the car and took me to the urgent care clinic.
My fever was 104.9 and my blood oxygen
level was very low. I was taken to the
hospital by ambulance. My daughter was
told to go directly to the hospital and not follow the ambulance in case I
coded.
That was the beginning of my West Nile Virus story.
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