Author: Mariah Wheeler

A woman in New York almost died after a rare, life-threatening brain inflammation that she confused with a head cold. Earlier this year, in January, the young woman began experiencing cold and flu symptoms that she just “couldn’t shake.” “My doctor told me to go to the emergency room, they gave me fluids and sent me home. The next day, I was even worse. My parents came to my apartment and took me back to the ER. Everything went downhill from there,” Amy told TODAY. “I had a fever and headache and was vomiting. I had terrible pressure in my head that felt like…

You often hear stories about people coming back from the dead but dismiss them as folktales. But a story that transpired for the family of a little girl, combined all their nightmares into one. Doctors at the hospital placed a cold towel on her lower body to lower her temperature while also placing an oximeter on her to keep check on her oxygen levels. Doctors released the little girl and wrote her a prescription for paracetamol. But her condition only worsened over the next few hours which prompted her family to seek a second opinion. The next doctor advised a diet of…