One woman's family said their goodbyes as she was locked in a coma. Then Rikke Schmidt Kjaergaard's husband noticed a tiny sparkle in her slightly open eyes.
I was in the ambulance on the way to the hospital when I sank into my coma. My body, it turned out, was defending itself against a severe case of bacterial meningitis.
The day before, New Year’s Day in Denmark six years ago, I was half-conscious from fever, diarrhea and vomiting, and my husband had called a doctor to the house who said I had the flu. But now my organs were under attack from one another, and I shut down. I was 38 years old.
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