Toxic Shock Syndrome Awareness
My name is Gavrielle and I am now 16 years old. On November 8, 2011, I came home from school feeling very sick. I had a bad headache, fever, nausea and a sore throat. My mom thought I had the flu or something that would run its course in the next 24-48 hrs. It got worse the second day. I was throwing up and started with diarrhea that night. I couldn't keep anything down. My mom was going to take me to the doctor after my brothers got on the bus the next morning … [Read more...]
My name is Sarah Davis, and I survived TSS when I was 15 years old. I will be 24 in March 2012. This is my story: May 2003: I started getting sick on a Sunday and felt a little worse on Monday. I didn't start getting really sick until Tuesday, when I started vomiting and having watery diarrhea. I also had a really high fever, probably around 102 degrees, and really bad chills. I thought I had the flu. It was really bad, and only getting worse. Wednesday I was still vomiting and couldn't eat. … [Read more...]
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