“Friends – I want to thank all of you for your immense support during the last two weeks. The support and well wishes from friends and family was extremely critical for me to have while being in an isolation chamber in a hospital thinking I was dying. Right now I am on a short reprieve of 12 hours ( must be back at VHG at 07:00) but wanted to write to update you all on what has happened and the current status.

Basically, in the early morning hours two weeks ago, I was rushed to Vancouver General Hospital with near paralysis and severe pain in my head and torso. This was a complete shock as there was no prior indication anything was wrong and I have enjoyed great health most of my life. After several tests including a spinal tap to retrieve spinal cord fluids, the diagnoses came in as Spinal Meningitis. For those of you who do not know this illness, 70 percent http://www.idph.state.il.us/public/hb/hbmening.htm or more of bacterial meningitis cases were fatal before antibiotics were developed and with antibiotic treatment, the fatality rate has dropped to 15 percent. The hospital basically pulled out all the stops to rid me of this disease.” (read more)