My symptoms appeared a few weeks before Christmas 2001, I was in http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=29.9647222222,-90.0705555556&spn=0.1,0.1&q=29.9647222222,-90.0705555556%20(New%20Orleans)&t=h at a conference and came down with the flu.
I called on the hotel doctor and he prescribed some antibiotics and he gave me a flue shot that he said will get me on my the feet quickly. As the doctor promised next day I was on my feet, back to the conference, still not feeling great but OK.
The day after I flew back to http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=43.7165888889,-79.3406861111&spn=0.1,0.1&q=43.7165888889,-79.3406861111%20(Toronto)&t=h (home), had a weekend with my family, during this weekend I started experience some tingling in my limbs, I did not pay too much attention to it. Monday came around I went to work, the tingling continued in my hands, I had a meeting with my manager and I mention about the odd tingling in my hands.
He said nothing to worry about, you been traveling allot lately.
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