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Please send Audrey your best wishes — she’s doing great after multiple sinus surgeries, a meningitis infection and more than two weeks in the hospital! Last summer Audrey developed such a severe headache while on a college tour in Southern California, that she and her family flew home to #Berkeley to get medical care. Once the family returned home, Audrey’s primary care doctor recommended she go immediately to our #Oakland Emergency Room. Our doctors quickly performed surgery on her left sinus and a lumbar puncture to remove excess fluid. Audrey also tested positive for #meningitis, an inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord. She took a course of antibiotics and anti-viral medications and also needed #sinus surgery on her right side and a PICC line for medications. Audrey was in the hospital for 17 days recovering. Two weeks after heading home, Audrey tried out for her school’s varsity volleyball team and made the team! She currently comes to our hospital f...

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