SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) -
Bossier City Police Officer Chris Davis is recovering from the West Nile Virus, and now his fellow city workers are planning a fundraiser to help with his mounting medical bills.
The first sign of the virus for Officer Davis was back in the beginning of August. Davis was dizzy and complained of having the shakes, but when he went to the doctor he was told that he was only dehydrated. As the symptoms started to get worse his wife insisted that he go to the hospital.
"He said I'm not going to the hospital," says Officer Davis' wife Vickie Davis. "So I had to make him get into the car and take him there."
Doctors would later find out that he was suffering from the West Nile Virus, and Davis would spend 9 days at Willis-Knighton Pierremont Health Center before returning home.
" I remember just holding my stomach, I couldn't keep anything down," says Davis.
After the weeks of recovery, Davis would lose 35 lbs. and would gain a ton of medical bills. Now his fellow co-workers are coming together to help relieve some of that stress. A lunch time fundraiser will be held in front of the Bossier City Police Department on Benton Road at 11 a.m. It is being hosted by the Bossier's Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 39, the Bossier Union Local 645, and the Bossier City Fire Department.
"These bills keep rolling in and you can't do anything. You stack them together and you think okay, here we go," says Davis.
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