Holiday monitoring and where to find us over the winter break

[EncephInternational]

Hello wonderful Encephalitis community!

First of all we would love to thank each and every one of you for getting involved in this community, and making it the warm, wonderful, welcoming and kind space that it is today.

We (the Encephalitis Society staff members who serve as some of the admins for this community) will be taking some time off for the winter break, so from today, Thursday 22nd December 2022, until Tuesday 3rd January 2023 we won't be monitoring the page.

The Society is still here for anyone who needs us, however. We will still be running our support services through our inbox ([e-mail]) over the 23rd, 28th, 29th and 30th December. Please don't hesitate get in touch if you need us, we are always here for you.

Wishing you a peaceful and joyful winter break,

The Encephalitis Society Team

[Seewatching]

Wishing you all Merry Christmas and a happy New yYear

🌲🤶🤗

[Wygella]

Have a lovely and well deserved break. Happy Christmas.

[beachy1980]

Merry Christmas 🎄

[Anjidav]

hello to all in this society. I know very little about encephalitis but my Dad has just passed away from this in hospital.

He was elderly and had heart failure which was well managed. We didn’t know he had encephalitis until he had 4 seizures and ended up in hospital bedridden on Christmas Eve.

What I am wondering is how often drowsiness and confusion plus unexplained eye palsy are missed by the medical profession. I don’t mean for blame but if awareness was raised that these 3 symptoms should be followed with a check for brain activity by MRI to rule out encephalitis perhaps.

My fathers symptoms were obscured by a leg infection and a course of antibiotics for that. But he developed right eye palsy with a clear CT scan and I can’t help thinking if they had checked then for encephalitis he might be here today.

Perhaps this is too simplistic and we can’t go back of course.