…antibodies. Early symptoms may include fever, headache, and feeling tired. This is then typically followed by psychosis which presents false beliefs (delusions) and seeing or hearing things that others do not see or hear (hallucinations).
Kertisha eventually ended up at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, where Dr. Shraddha Mainali and her team treated Kertisha’s condition and seizures aggressively. After months, she woke up.
“Oh, my goodness, we just jumped up and down and screamed and nobody slept that morning,” Kertease said.
Even though she woke up in 2018, Kertisha thought it was still September 2018.
“[The nurse] was like ‘Yeah, Ms. Brabson, you’ve been asleep for seven months’,” Kertisha said. “I was like ‘do my mom know?” she laughed.
This year, unlike last year, Kertisha was able to celebrate the holiday season at home with her mother, her daughter, Diamonique and her son, Perez.
“I am quite hopeful in her case that she’s going to continue to do well and hopefully live a normal life,” Dr. Mainali said.