Kelly said he was one of the first people in Ontario to be infected with that virus and is now part of a study among former patients being conducted at St. He went to the local hospital and told the authorities: "I need a monkeypox test, please." The result came back positive. You can just control that over the years."īut he looked at the pictures more closely, and wondered if it was monkeypox.
"That started to really affect my mental health because you can't cure it. "You start Googling this and that's the worst thing you could ever do."ĭoctors suspected it was herpes, which Kelly said "freaked" him out. He said he immediately began to search the web for what the rash might be. Kelly's fever broke on the third day and soon after he said he noticed red rash. I was wearing a winter jacket in bed, I was so cold." It was super high fever and night chills.
For two days I didn't really move, I would just go to the washroom and go back to bed and sleep some more. "I must have been really sick and I didn't even know. "I was so delirious," he said in an interview, as he described the agonizing symptoms associated with the disease and the sense of isolation during about three weeks of home quarantine. The 28-year-old Toronto resident had only just returned to work as a dancer and physical trainer in late May when he developed a fever. Peter Kelly was still bouncing back from COVID-19 when a case of monkeypox gave him the "worst pain" of his life.
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