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With all this talk of dog diseases, I thought I'd post this. About 11 years ago, I contracted something, unknown to me what it was but I was Extremely sick. I stayed sick to my stomach (very) for about 3 months, all that went down good was water. I had flu like symptoms the whole time. I saw two different doctors, one told me I had the flu, get rest and drink fluids, the other told me I had contracted a bug in the water, on my trip to Anchorage and gave me one big pill to cure me.

It didn't. After about three months of losing weight, not eating and flu like symptoms I began to develop a fever, it got worse over the next week. So I went to the hospital. I was also about 4 months pregnant, so they did a sonogram. Told me nothing was wrong with me and sent me home. That night I started hemorrhaging (sp?) very badly, didn't go back to the hospital for many hours though.

By the next morning my fever was very high, chills and still bleeding profusely. I went to the hospital again, had a miscarriage and a fever of 107. I had lost all my peripheral vision and my heart rate was 145 laying down. Two doctors were discussing what could be wrong with me and they were talking about some dog disease I had heard of before but can't remember which one to save my life, possibly parvo or distemper because I know of those. All I know is I was SHOCKEd to hear them say that. A little while later I was unconscious and stayed out for two days. I know they didn't say rabies though.

Just thought I'd post this in case you guys know of another one. Whatever got me was terrible. They tried to talk me into a blood transfusion and warned me about the risks involved with that, when I said no thanks, they said I'd have to stay in the hospital longer then to get my blood back up. A week after I went home the doc called me and said that there was something growing in my blood culture. They didn't know what it was either. I never did find out. But apparently I'm ok now. FWIW.

I've posted a copy of the translation of the Osama Bin Laden statement of January 4 2004 on my website at http://www.terrorfacts.com/ubl_342994.asp.

The official translation has been released by FBIS so that is the one that I've posted, not my own.

What a traumatic thing to have to go through! Didn't they ever tell you what it was?

**virtual hug for knak**

Could it have been Lyme dis-ease?

Lyme Disease is a bacterial disease affecting both humans and animals

OR...

Canine Leptospirosis:

Leptospirosis, a contagious disease affecting both animals and humans and spread by infection with a bacterial pathogen called Leptospira

The Leptospira Organism. Leptospires are known as "aquatic spirochetes": they thrive in water and appear long and helical with a characteristic hook on one or both ends.

Modes of Disease Transmission. Leptospira thrive in spring and autumn when wet soil conditions and moderate temperatures support their otherwise poor environmental survivability. Infection by contact with infected urine or ingestion of urine-contaminated water is the most common means of transmission of the disease.

Symptoms of disease. During the first 4-12 days following infection with Leptospira, may experience sudden symptoms of fever (103-105oF), depression, vomiting, loss of appetite, conjunctivitis, and generalized pain. Within 2 days of the onset of these primary symptoms, body temperature may drop suddenly and there may be a noticeable increase in thirst. In advanced cases of infection, profound depression, difficulty breathing, muscular tremors, bloody vomitus and feces are often observed as the infection progresses to include the liver, gastrointestinal system and other organs. Course and severity of the disease is often dependent upon the serovar responsible for the infection.

http://www.labbies.com/lepto.htm