w.nile sufferer speaks out

I contracted w.nile while living in rural woodland about 3 weeks ago. my symptoms matched the typical ones described online: fever, muscle weakness, fatigue, rash, swollen lymph nodes etc.. minor symptoms continued for two weeks and then right when I was feeling better then boom! high fever to 105 degrees for three days. I was referred to emergency by a county clinic and a spinal tap was done and meningitis was found at which point I was hospitalized for two days as they did the bloodwork to find out if it was viral or bacteriological. I was told that the county only tested inpatients for the disease although I did convince a county health worker to test for the virus before I was hospitalized. meanwhile in the hospital, the blood culture came back positive for viral meningitis at which point I was dismissed from their care, and treatment was terminated. The fever is gone but I have numbness in the hands, fatigue, strange depression and dizziness as well as back pain from the lumbar puncture. I am uninsured and work on a sustainable agriculture research farm that has its fair share of mosquitoes. vector control does spray the rice fields next door time to time. As a result of my case and another, also on a healthy young person, the county may go foward with arial spraying throught the area. Organic farms can lose their certification if they get sprayed with pesticides so the county is assuring the public that they have a good map of the organic farms. So far I have only been contacted by the county to tell me of the positive test for w.nile. I am going to try to apply for Yolo county indigent health care to help pay for the hospitalization costs. This is a serious illness and people need to be aware. There is no real treatment for it only supportive assistance if you get really sick or have secondary infections. I am 36 and in generally good shape.