Haven Herald Vol.102

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Episode correspondant : 307 Magic Hour - Partie 1

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Mysterious Sleeping Sickness Leaves Area Doctors Baffled

A local resident, Rica Hamilton, was ad mitted to the Haven Regional Hospital last week, and was pronounced dead on arrival by attending physicians, but only a few hours later she suddenly made a miraculous recovery and walked out of the hospital unassisted the following day.
"I've never seen anything like it," said Dr. Rudy Lucassi, one of the physicians on Hamilton's medical team. "We checked all of her vitals—looking for neurological activity, pulse, respiration—and they all came back negative. One minute she was clinically dead, and the next she was jumping off the exam table. Ti's the craziest thing I've ever seen... And I've seen some crazy things."
At first baffled by the strange events, doctors ran more tests and soon determined that Rica had contracted a rare parasitic disease most often found in South America. In most cases, if left untreated the disease eventually works its way through the blood-brain barrier where it affects neurological processes, leading to symptoms such as a disrupted sleep cycle, irregular heartbeat and a deep comatose state.
"Mrs. Hamilton's case is very unique, and she is a very lucky woman." Lucassi said. "It appeared to us that three of her priary systems completely shut down. The respiratory, nervous and circulatory systems had all been slowed to the point where even we, as medical professionals, couldn't detect those telltale signs of life. She was literally on death's door, but then her body's defense just won out, and now she's made a complete recovery."
"I just hope this is an isolated case. It my heart has to take another scare like that—seeing her jump up when we all thought she was gone—then I might be the next one on the autopsy table."
Based on a battery of tests run after her recovery, Rica appears to have made a complete recovery, so doctors have released her into the care of her husband, Dan Hamilton. Tests also indicate that the disease is not contagious.
"Whatever it was, whatever weird South American sleeping sickness, I don't really care—I'm just happy to have my wife back," Dan said. "You can call it what you want, I'm just going to call it a miracle".

— by Vince Teagues, Herald Staff Writer

Haven Happenings : Your Guide For What Not To Miss In Our Little Town

This Saturday at 10 p.m., local punk rockers The Losers' Club will take the stage at The Shop for a one-night-only performance they are predicting will "probably start on time." The Losers' Club is famous—or infamous, depending on your position—for their performance at The Haven Yacht Club last summer, were they performed so loudly they reportedly unmoored the club owner's flagship vessel and scared all fishing five miles farther out to sea.
This coming Sunday, East Haven High School senior Bridgette Brown will be officially crowned as this year's Haven Lobster Queen at Dockside Green Park for her outstanding scholarly accomplishments, and service to the community, including establishing a local food bank and working with local businesses to create wireless Internet "hot spots" around downtown Haven.
A horde of goblins, ghouls and all manner of wizardly warriors descend on Trapingus Cove this weekend, which has been selected to host the first ever Havenaria LARPers Convention. For those unschooled in the mystical arts, LARPing (an acronym for Live Action Role-Playing) is a game in which participants—often dressed as mythical creatures or fabled warriors—act out the actions of their characters on a battlefield using foam weapons and bags of birdseed to represent spells. So, if you're out camping in Trapingus Cover this weekend, don't be alarmed if you see orcs running through the woods or warriors rising from the dead—it's all part of the fun!

— by Vince Teagues

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