What is Meningitis

Meningitis is inflammation of the membranes (meninges) covering the brain and the spinal cord. Although the most common causes are infection (bacterial, viral, fungal or parasitic)...

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Sunday November 29, 2009

Call For Help Stories

  • The Mother Poem

    Monday, May 19, 2008 | A Call For Help story

    This is a poem about my mother that I just wrote.  I know I shouldn't send it to her no matter how badly I want her to read it, but I'm looking for help.  Parts of it may not make sense to anyone (even her I think).  It's about the fights that we've had.  I cannot get them out of my head.I hate the way you send my mindThe way you’re always rightI hate the...

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  • HELP.

    Wednesday, July 30, 2008 | A Call For Help story

    Fuck dude, I don't want to die.

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  • Fear :: Fck Everything and Run

    Tuesday, August 5, 2008 | A Call For Help story

    Seems like that's all I can ever do is run away. I'm leaving again, tomorrow. Moving away, leaving people, friends, enemies, nobodies, and somebodies. My anxiety is literally through the roof, to the point that I feel physically ill. I have never had a panic attack in sobreity yet, and I'm freaking out beyond belief. I'm shaking so bad; I can hardly type. I keep having to delete m...

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  • UGH.

    Tuesday, August 5, 2008 | A Call For Help story

    I'm just going to go get drunk.
    Ya know what happens when you get drunk?
    You don't have to feel anything.
    You don't have to be nervous.
    You don't have to think.
    You don't have to be anything, besides SHITFACED.

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  • Tell me your passions gone away..

    Tuesday, August 19, 2008 | A Call For Help story

    I've been dreaming about cutting everyday for a while; they say using dreams are a catalyst to relapse. I wonder when it's gonna happen. I have forty days sober, and I haven't cut myself in forty days either. That's a really long time. I still think I could use a drink. I need a blue sky holiday. Does anyone know of any cool things to do out here in Northern California? We may be ...

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  • I'm losing my husband to Alzheimers big time!!

    Sunday, October 19, 2008 | A Call For Help story

    My husband was supposed to have an angioplasty on his leg on the 28th of this month.  He had one previously and got through it pretty go - a littlle more memory loss but he was forgetting as usual.  He just had another one the other day and I didn't know that he was in the hospital.  I Kept calling his cell phone and thought that maybe he was asleep and wasn't answering and...

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  • I hope that God is reading this entry because I still feel so horrible.  I feel so shaky and my chest feels so weird.  I know that my heart was hurting on Thursday on the way home and then yesterday I had a horrible headache that felt alright when the lights were out but when they were on WOW!!!!   I used to get migraines before and thought they were bad but my head hurt so ba...

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  • I had my appointment today with the Endrochronologist but before we were picked up my Mother desides to start ragging on me because I had asked her to take my O2 canister off the filling machine and after two seconds of trying she said her usual response "I can't do this" and then I said that I knew I was going to get her stock answer.  Then I told her it figured because she wa...

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  • my entry to "Post Meningitis Headache"

    Friday, April 24, 2009 | A Call For Help story

     
    I had viral menigitis 2-28-09.  I was hospitaled for 9 days.  I was treated like a drugie because I could not speak or only use simple words.   I have lost my health insurance due to horrible employer and have having to rely on the "SYSTEM"  yeah right.  I saw a neursugeon in Orange County, CA on 4-7-09 because the hospital said I had "WATER ON T...

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  • bacterial meningitis

    Tuesday, September 29, 2009 | A Call For Help story

    i will try to be brier .one afternoon my husband had a severe headache and then his ear began to hurt.the  next morning we awoke to find his ear had apparently ruptured..judgung from the large amount of puss and blood on the pillow.and the drainage from his ear.imediatly i rshed him to the nearest hosptial.the er. dr. run no tests said he had a middle era infection gave him a script for amox...

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