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# When Everything Stopped: My First Days in the Hospital
- URL: https://orange-healing.ghost.io/when-everything-stopped-my-first-days-in-the-hospital/
- Published: 2025-04-24T20:02:51.000Z
- Updated: 2025-04-25T09:36:10.000Z
- Author: Summer
- Tags: My Story

### **THE HOSPITAL MORNING**

That morning, I couldn’t walk, couldn’t see, couldn’t speak. We went to another private hospital. They kept me in the emergency room for 3–4 hours. I couldn’t do anything except slowly turn my head side to side. “We need to admit the patient,” they said. My family was on their way, and I couldn’t feel anything but pain.

They arrived and told me, “You’re going to be hospitalized for a while.” I didn’t understand a thing. What was happening? When did things become this serious?

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### **THE FIRST WEEK**

Truthfully, I barely remember my first week. They were giving me constant antibiotics, taking blood, doing MRIs and X-rays. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw things so grotesque, they’re impossible to describe. I couldn’t escape the images. And when I opened my eyes, everything was blurry and doubled.

There’s one nightmare I remember vividly, but I won’t go into detail. Let’s just say I saw terrifying visions erupting from the cover of Gesaffelstein’s *Conspiracy Pt. 2* — everything was black, red. Fire. Blood. Smoke.

As for the tests:

- The MRI showed a brain lesion.
- A lumbar puncture was done (first they suspected Lyme disease, but it wasn’t).
- Results came back clear.
- D-dimer was elevated (13).
- CRP was 120.
- No COVID, no influenza.
- Lungs were clean.
- A small gallstone was found.
- Lithium was 1.19 (this is important for later).

In short, they still couldn’t figure out what was making me so sick.

Some doctors asked if I had received the COVID-19 vaccine. I had — two doses of BioNTech. Could it be related? Some doctors thought maybe it was.

During this time, I had a short seizure. My EEG showed mild abnormalities, and just like that, seizure medication was added to my treatment list.

One strange thing happened. Was it the second day? I can’t quite remember. My cousin came to visit, and I was speaking almost normally. Just a slight rasp. I had no idea it would be *months* before I would hear my own voice again.

The rest? Blood, chaos, nightmares, fever.