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5 years ago today, I woke feeling fine, then quickly developed malaise. An hour later, I started to rigor. I know rigors are bad, but I thought (hoped?) it was viral. I developed horrible, diffuse abd pain, vomiting, and relentless rigors. I had no idea what was going on. 1/18
Too embarrassed to go to the ED, in case it was “just gastroenteritis,” I stayed in bed, taking ibuprofen and sipping water as I could. After 3 days, I asked my husband, also an intensivist, to take me to the ED. We went to his hospital, not mine. 2/18
I was so sick, and had been in this miasma of illness so long, I couldn’t give a coherent history. As an EM-CCM doc. I couldn’t remember the timeline or what I was feeling. 3/18
