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Woman, 23, shares experience brain swelling, an unusual COVID-19 complication TODAY 4 days ago Meghan Holohan When Shelby Ponder became sick over the summer with COVID-19 she felt like she had a very bad case of strep throat. Then she experienced relentless high fevers for two weeks. She started hallucinating and couldn’t sleep, maybe dozing for 30 minutes at a time if she were lucky. It was only later that she learned that post-viral encephalitis contributed to headaches, vision problems and poor sleep. “I wasn’t cognitively aware enough to even realize what was happening,” Ponder, 23, of Lexington, Kentucky, told TODAY. “Having brain swelling was not even a thought that crossed my mind or that it could really be serious.” ....
of LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 17, 2021) For University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law student Shelby Ponder, this past summer was supposed to be focused on serving as a law clerk at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in London, Kentucky. However, instead of being a summer she would never forget due to gaining that prestigious experience, it turned into a defining chapter in her life in which her only focus of every minute was surviving. “This experience showed me how little I understood of true suffering. I never understood how your health can control every aspect of your life. Without it, I truly felt like I had nothing,” said Ponder. ....
After months of being seriously sick and testing negative for COVID-19, 23-year-old Shelby Ponder shares how doctors finally learned that the virus caused her life-threatening brain condition. ....