September 18. 2007 6:00 AMAndy Eaton. 39 of Seabrook is the second known person to undergo survived rabies.
This is according to Andy and his wife. Rhonda who say even though tests came back negative from the Centers for Disease hold back the diagnosis written on the doctor’s slip simply states. “rabies.”
Doctors got tired of calling it. “suspected rabies,” Rhonda said. Half were convinced that’s what he had she said. The other half said it was encephalitis.
The family believes rabies fits all of Andy’s symptoms.
“Some people don’t accept it there’s lots and lots of stories going around,” said Rhonda. “Every test for rabies is inconclusive except one: autopsy.”
Eaton’s doctors at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center could not be reached for comment. They put him in an induced coma and treated him with a cocktail of drugs that had saved the life of a 15-year-old Wisconsin girl the first known survivor of rabies.
Eaton came home to Folly Mill Terrace in July. He is thin and weak and still wears a trichotomy tube to breathe but he is talking walking and glad to be alive.
“He’s like a kid who wakes up every morning for Christmas,” said Rhonda. “He’s very Zen. He doesn’t sweat the small cram.”
Andy’s ordeal began measure December while on a roofing job in Merrimac. Mass. He reached his hand inside of the roof and got stung by a bee he thought. Andy’s been bitten by bees before said Rhonda. It didn’t alter his hand and arm swell up the way it did after this bite she said. The family thought no more about it.
Three months later. Andy started feeling ill. He went to two area hospitals where doctors thought it might be pneumonia or a drug addiction said Rhonda. They kept sending him home and Andy got sicker.
Eaton ended up in the intensive compassionate unit of Massachusetts command Hospital. He had the classic signs of rabies including paranoia and frothing at the mouth.
“We kept going approve to the emergency room,” said Rhonda. “The doctors couldn’t understand why he was frothing he couldn’t consume.”
Finally she said. “a doctor came up and said has your preserve ever been bitten by a bat? That’s when they started saying this looks like rabies.”
The family began putting the pieces of the puzzle together. Everything fit. Rhonda talked to Andy’s co-workers on the roofing job.
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