Herpes Simplex Encephalitis - Sanjay's Story
All was well, on 3rd August 2019, until it wasn’t. My father, out of the blue, started having a headache in the evening. He got checked from his aunt (who is a doctor), and she suggested that we take him to the hospital in our hometown, Udaipur (India), as he had started stuttering. Upon reaching the hospital, his brain’s MRI was conducted and my father was admitted in the ICU. Over the course of the next few days, my father’s health deteriorated. He felt feverish, started drooling and passed urine. His blood test suggested that he had contracted an infection, due to which the doctors put him on steroids. Soon, he started losing control over the right side of his body, and my mother, his aunt and friends decided to take him to Bombay, where he can get better treatment. My brother was immediately called home from his job in Gurgaon. I was still in college and knew nothing about what had happened.
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