What was my diagnosis?

Question

When I was six, I was hospitalized for a day.

At 7am I woke with a high temperature (105 to be exact), My mother put me in an ice cold bath which only brought the fever down 1 degree. Then she drove me to the hospital, where a doctor gave me a spinal tap. The Doctors never told me what happened?

What was my diagnosis?

Answer 1

very lucky to be alive

Answer 2

No one can tell you that. You can get your medical records though.

Answer 3

Spinal meningitis ?

Answer 4

Probably something viral, or an unknown something.

If you never knew it might be because they never knew. If you want you can request copies of your medical records to see what they thought at the time.

If they never put you on antibiotics, never put you in isolation etc.... and sent you home.... it was probably you just getting super sick.

Find out what hospital you were at, call their medical records department and get copies of your records. The hospital keeps medical records for several years when you're a kid. I think it is until you are 18 or 19.... call and ask.

Good luck.