A sudden high fever, stiffness in the neck for several hours, and suddenly, the body gave out: “I was curled up in the fetal position, I couldn't move. » The life of Émilie, 17 at the time, 36 today, changed in September 2005, the day she was hospitalized for suspected meningitis. An infectious disease, highly contagious and potentially fatal, on the rise since Covid.
Upon arrival at the Voiron hospital (Isère), in Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes, “the diagnosis of meningitis was made straight away”. The Samu immediately transferred her to Grenoble hospital, in intensive care, where she was plunged into an artificial coma for seven days. Heart, lungs, kidneys... “During this sleep, my organs failed me one after the other,” she says. My life was tied to machines. »
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