I thought I would tell you my son story. He joined the national guards last Aug. I wasn’t happy but new that’s what he believe in and he is 20 so nothing I could do. Six weeks into training he came down with a cold, then about a week later he started complaining that his hands and feet were tingling. His drill officers at first told him to just stretch more. He would call home telling me that allot of the kids thought he was making it up and he wasn’t. It kept going on till he called home saying he couldn’t even get out of the chair they took him to the hospital in Lawton Ok. Thank God they took him off post and got a doctor that thought he had gbs. He called home and told he about it. Which I had now clue what has going on but they where going to do a spinal tap. It was the hardest thing know I couldn’t be with him. He was 1300 miles away.[We live in ND] The army was really good about trying to help but they really didn’t know what to tell me. My son said they offered him a medical discharge but he wanted to stay in. Anyway 2 weeks in the hospital and 2 monthes of rehab on the post. He went back into basic and finished. Any now he is in Missouri training to be a heavy a equipment operator. With him getting the gbs has made him a stronger person and he says he can get through anything now.

I thought I would tell you my son story. He joined the national guards last Aug. I wasn’t happy but new that’s what he believe in and he is 20 so nothing I could do. Six weeks into training he came down with a cold, then about a week later he started complaining that his hands and feet were tingling. His drill officers at first told him to just stretch more. He would call home telling me that allot of the kids thought he was making it up and he wasn’t. It kept going on till he called home saying he couldn’t even get out of the chair they took him to the hospital in Lawton Ok. Thank God they took him off post and got a doctor that thought he had gbs. He called home and told he about it. Which I had now clue what has going on but they where going to do a spinal tap. It was the hardest thing knowing I couldn’t be with him. He was 1300 miles away.[We live in ND] The army was really good about trying to help but they really didn’t know what to tell me. My son said they offered him a medical discharge but he wanted to stay in. Anyway 2 weeks in the hospital and 2 monthes of rehab on the post. He went back into basic and finished. Any now he is in Missouri training to be a heavy aequipment operator. With him getting the gbs has made him a stronger person and he says he can get through anything now.