Did I ever tell y'all about the time I almost died from swimming pool water?

@lizardsquid I got shigella and probably salmonella from it. Went septic, was within hours of death when I got to the hospital. They almost drilled holes in my skull to relieve the intracranial pressure. I was so dehydrated that they couldn't draw my blood with a hypodermic.
And that's why I don't like swimming pools.

@lizardsquid Hallucinated intensely for about two days. I don't even remember another two. Oh, I got a spinal tap, too, because at first they thought I was dying of meningitis. It was like being in an episode of House

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