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<html><head><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head>Update: Gary's meningitis is viral meaning far less contagious and less threatening to him. He is lucid but remembers nothing of yesterday. I will visit him in icu at 1pm cdt.<br>
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Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Jon Lowe <jonlowe@aol.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Those of you at the Nats know Gary lost his Spark (actually borrowed from Andrew Jesky) during Sunday practice. Then he judged all week including four rounds of fai and masters finals. He finished judging complaining of a massive headache which we attributed to the sun and dehydration. He insisted on going home without getting checked by a doctor, and to make a long story short, he is in the hospital with meningitis. Drs. aren't sure if it is bacterial or viral, but he is in bad shape at Huntsville Hospital in Huntsville, Al. After several hours with him in the emergency room at their satellite hospital they transferred him last nite to the main hospitals infectious disease section. On doctor's advice, I went back to the emergency ward and got a prophylactic dose of antibiotics because I was around him all week. The doctor told me that other people are at low risk. They are pumping him full of antibiotics until cultures come back and id the strain and bacteria
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Viral. FWIW, symptoms are bad headache, fever with chills, stiff neck, then extreme lower back pain. I've never witnessed so much pain.<br>
Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers and I will update as I know more.<br>
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Jon Lowe<br>
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