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My Flu Monster Israel today

2022-01-06T11:56:12.005Z


The difficult complication I experienced as a girl became a life lesson I received from my parents, which is passed on to my daughters


"The whole house is sick (not Corona)."

Here is a particularly standard SMS, which, like many in Israel, has been used by me quite a bit this week.

With an emphasis on parentheses, what is the effect today compared to the corona.

Well, the flu for me is like this ex, whose name mostly reminds you of the bad way it ended with him.

Two decades ago, winter of 2002. I'm with the flu.

Fever fever, plus muscle aches, nothing that at 15 should stop a girl full of pride from continuing to run her life as usual, with obvious irresponsibility.

Despite the warnings from my parents that I was exhausting myself, I competed in a league competition at the Olympic Range in Herzliya.

My absence would bring down the whole group, and there is no such thing as being absent from where I am needed.

Despite zero concentration from most patients, I finished the competition with minimal damage and returned home to collapse on the bed.

The next thing I remember is that I'm tied to a bed with thin cables in a strange, scary place, and around people I do not know.

Like any person who would wake up in such a situation and be convinced that he was in a nightmare, I was hysterical and tried to break free by force, while the strangers tried to prevent it from happening to me.

Until a sharp headache took over me, and I lost consciousness again.

When I woke up, the strangers, including two who claimed to be my parents, tried to explain to me that I was in the hospital, surrounded by an excellent team of doctors, that the "cables" were infusion tubes, and that I had to rest because I was sick.

I did not believe the words of the kidnappers, until the picture became clear: I suffered from memory loss.

Every time I woke up from deep sleep, I lost my memory again, and they had to tell me where I was, and what I was going through.

The effect turned out to be complicated and developed into encephalitis.

For two weeks I slept in Ichilov.

The headaches were unbearable, and did not allow me to sit at all.

My parents had to spoon-feed me, or set me a pot in bed for me to defecate.

Walking to the bathroom was simply impossible, leading to fainting after fainting.

Every time a light was turned on for testing, I felt my brain go up in flames.

It was the only time in my life that I heard my late father scream in his throat - about the nurse who told him it was great that they had been able to diagnose my illness.

"Is encephalitis with 40 percent mortality excellent? !!", he shouted at the end of the hallway.

Then he went back to my room and smiled like nothing, and tried with my mother to lift my spirits.

I was then released to home hospitalization, and lay for a few more months with infusions.

But thanks to my parents' strategy of not letting me break or feel sorry for myself, I was able to beat the disease.

Despite long months of pain and suffering, high fever, loss of consciousness, hallucinations and pain from any exposure to light, they gave me a great light, which allowed me to be on the good side of the statistics.

I take care to pass on this education to my daughters as well.

This week, when the flu took over my house, and this time I'm on the parent's side, I did not send them mercy, even though inside me I exploded with worry.

If there is one thing that the flu has taught me, it is that every lesson I have not internalized will come back to me in the future with an ax and become a monster - that will draw not only me, but also my lovers.

And yet, something in me just refuses to internalize.

To this day I do not stop fighting this destructive trait, which does not allow me to stop even when the body screams for help.

Whenever I feel bad, I try to convince myself that even if I disappear for the day of illness this will not be surrender, but merely preservation.

I'm not always successful.

awful.

danieller@israelhayom.co.il

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Source: israelhayom

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