Meningitis when I was twenty two, close runner up was the emergency Spinal Puncture they had to do to relieve the pressure on my brain. I had been sent home 4 times with the wrong diagnosis of a sinus infection. I was told if I returned to the hospital before the 25th, they would just send me back home. I waited till the 25th to go back, had a fever of 103, wasn't coherent in any way. (parents took me back in) And the ER doctor on call that day knew what it was right away. In the end, I lived, and at the time held the record for the person to have it the longest without dying at my hospital. (Not really a record I would suggest trying to beat, or even competing for.) If there was more than one hospital within reasonable traveling distance of my home, I might not have suffered as long. (3 Weeks from the onset of the headache.)
Meningitis when I was twenty two, close runner up was the emergency Spinal Puncture they had to do to relieve the pressure on my brain. I had been sent home 4 times with the wrong diagnosis of a sinus infection. I was told if I returned to the hospital before the 25th, they would just send me back home. I waited till the 25th to go back, had a fever of 103, wasn't coherent in any way. (parents took me back in) And the ER doctor on call that day knew what it was right away. In the end, I lived, and at the time held the record for the person to have it the longest without dying at my hospital. (Not really a record I would suggest trying to beat, or even competing for.) If there was more than one hospital within reasonable traveling distance of my home, I might not have suffered as long. (3 Weeks from the onset of the headache.)