Nobody knows this better, perhaps, than renowned ABC sports broadcaster Karen Tighe – though the last 12 months for her have been defined not by, but herpes simplex encephalitis – an illness she knew nothing about until she contracted it last March.
“I thought I was just coming down with something, that it was busy at work, and if I was still feeling a bit yucky at the end of the week I’d go to the doctor,” Tighe recalled. The first two to three days of her time at Perth’s Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital are “like a blank out”. “Nausea for months and months and months – daily nausea that would come and go, come and go every day – and losing chunks of hair for about a two-month period,” Tighe said.
sozzy79
Cold sore is herpes virus... no cure 😢
Read the story months ago on the ABC news website.
I want to wish Karen a speedy recovery.
Woman almost killed by cold sore ? Please change this headline, not least bc I’m pretty sure she didn’t have a cold sore ?
change the headline, that just sounds degrading
Geez women are so dramatic 🙄