Bickerstaff Brainstem Encephalitis - Rebecca's Story
I spent the next day in bed, barely able to walk without intense feelings of vertigo - my vision was blurred, balance was off, and I felt incredibly nauseous. I was wheeled off to the hospital in an ambulance at around 1 am and can remember lying in hospital very scared and ill, with lots of beeping and voices all around me. My vision seemed to fade at one point, and after that, everything is entirely blank. My only rather frustrating memory is being told to ‘walk it off’; luckily, my family were able to flag down a lovely nurse who saw how ill I was before taking me to the ICU. There was much worry about a tropical disease causing my symptoms, hence the speed of my admission to the intensive care unit.
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