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SCHICKSALE - hr Mann hat eine fünfprozentige Überlebenschance: Cami und Jake Bartel aus Arizona kämpfen gemeinsam gegen sein MELAS-Syndrom
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WORDS BYLINE: Andrea Caknis
They had only been married five months and were happily making plans together.
And when Jake started complaining about a headache, Cami Bartel thought nothing of it.
He went to bed and the couple hoped he’d be better in the morning.
But at 4am on October 1 2019, Cami woke up to find Jake having a seizure next to her in bed.
“I called 911 immediately. It was surreal, almost like watching someone else’s life unravel,” says Cami, now 28.
“One moment we were planning our future, and the next I was rushing my 27-year-old husband to hospital without knowing if he’d survive.”
What began as a simple headache turned into a full-blown medical emergency overnight. By the time Jake was admitted, doctors were completely baffled.
“He didn’t just have a seizure,” says Cami.
“There was also swelling on his brain, and that really scared everyone.”
Doctors initially suspected a severe viral or bacterial infection and began testing for everything from meningitis to West Nile virus.
“They told me they were checking for all kinds of infections,” she says.
“But every single test came back negative. It was like watching them search in the dark while Jake got worse.”
With no clear answers and Jake’s condition deteriorating rapidly, doctors prepared Cami for the worst.
“That’s when they gave me the five per cent survival rate,” she says.
“They assumed it had to be some virus they just couldn’t identify, but they weren’t even considering anything beyond that.
“I was 22, sitting there, trying to process that my husband, who had been healthy just hours earlier, might not make it through the night.”
But Jake, now 32, defied the odds. After two weeks in hospital, he was discharged. However the nightmare was far from over. No one could explain what had happened or why.
“We went home with no diagnosis, just this overwhelming sense of fear mixed with relief,” says Cami.
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