meningoencephalitis

And the reason my coma is so important to the neuroscientific community is the fact that it was a severe case of bacterial meningitis.

Meningoencephalitis, actually, was swelling and infection going down into the brain itself, very deep layers.

And that, I think, is the important thing to get here is I was deathly ill from this.

So to give a little bit of context to our audience to how serious your condition was.