CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Mayor Danny Jones revealed on his radio show this morning he was in the hospital this week with what doctors are calling a viral infection.
Jones said it all started after Monday’s city council meeting.
“I got sicker than nine dogs,” Jones said on 580 Live heard on WCHS. “I mean I was sick all night long, sick in such a way that you wonder wait a minute, am I buying the farm here? What’s going on?”
Jones said this illness was similar to one he had suffered previously in 2010.
“It was similar to symptoms I had in 2010 when I think I had meningitis or encephalitis or some type of viral infection,” he said. “I pretty well knew that is what I had, by the time four o’clock in the afternoon came I was done. I didn’t feel like I could survive just sitting there at home.”
Jones called a Charleston city paramedic to take him to the hospital around 5 p.m. and they started giving him tests shortly after he arrived.
“They kept running tests and I told them, if you would run a spinal tap you would find out what was happening,” Jones said. “They can’t run a spinal tap until the last test, those are insurance requirements, so it wasn’t until they ran the spinal tap that they found out I had a viral infection and at one o’clock in the morning I got to go home.”
Despite having to wait for the correct tests due to insurance requirements, Jones said he walked away from the hospital impressed with the employees.
“I just can’t say enough about the treatment you get in there,” Jones said. “Most of the doctors found out who I was, but most of the people in there didn’t know me. They said ‘What’s your name?’ ‘Is that spelled with a D?’ they didn’t know who I was, but they still treated me wonderfully.”
Jones has returned to his radio show and said he is feeling much better.