Brain on Fire Setting

  Susannah Cahalan wakes up in a strange room.  She is unaware of what is going on.  She is alone, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or sleep.  Tentatively, she lifts up her arm to find a wrist band that reads, "flight risk".  Along with this she finds her medical records-chronicling from a month long stay of which she cannot remember.  These consist of things such as hallucinations, violence, and dangerous instability.  She remembers a week ago, a promising job, a serious relationship, and the picture of health.
  After this, she goes back a month or so to when all these curious things started happening to her.  First she notices a couple bug bites on her hand which she is sure are bedbugs.  Now, if I found a couple of bug bites, I would probably not take much notice of it, but not Susannah.  She gets her apartment sprayed for bedbugs not once, not twice, but three times.  After this more serious symptoms occur that closely resemble mono, fatigue, nasea, and irratibility.  These slowly evolve into serious symptoms including extreme paranoia, seizures, and violence.
   What will happen next in this thrilling tale?  Willl Susannah ever be diagnosed?  Will Susannah ever be the way she was before?

Brain on Fire

   When I first saw this book, the thing that really struck me was the picture on the front.  If you look at it, it is pretty creepy.  The tittle too, I mean "Brain on Fire", I don't know about you, but that title doesn't seem too appealing to me.  I got the book as a suggestion from Goodreads and added it to my to-read list.  From that I let it sit there for a while.  But just recently I was stumped for which book to read and sought Goodreads for some inspiration.  Then this book and I met again and I figured I should try it.  I mean it had pretty good ratings so how bad could it be? 
   This book is a memoir about the author, Susannah Cahalan, who is an early adult.  She is a fairly new reporter.  Suddenly she doesn't feel too good and has symptoms alike to mono.  She figures that it will pass but it doesn't.  Later, she starts having dramatic mood swings and has a seizure.  The memoir is the story of how her condition escalates, that is of what she can remember of it.