Joe Martin
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August 24, 2007 at 9:54 pm
I quit smoking a year and a half before GBS which included the vent. I had smoked for 40 years plus.
June 17, 2007 at 11:12 pmIs your friend on heavy medication? I had wild dreams of being cooked on a stove along with being frozzen and then thawed out, which took place while in a medical induced coma. It took me a long time to sort out what was real and what wasn’t while coming out of the coma. I did have the sweats real bad for quite a while until more nerves came back to life.
January 10, 2007 at 10:37 amHello Robert,
I am ten months out from complete parallis, trach, and medical induced coma. I have no problems with my hands other than loss of sense of touch in a couple places. As for my feet, I still dont have much feeling back and the muscels act in wierd ways. I need lots of support to get up from kneeling, and still need lots of oomph to go sit to stand. I had gbs, by the way. When putting on shoes, my left foot seems bigger than the right, like it’s swollen all the time, which it could have water retention due to lack of circulation, which you would think would work itself out with walking, but it doesn’t. The wife still say’s I can’t drive yet, but I think in an emergency, I would have no trouble. Since I was going to retire this march anyway, the want or need to drive doesn’t depress me. I still wake up each morning thinking I will stand on the floor and every thing will be back to pre GBS.
JoeDecember 14, 2006 at 10:04 pmHello Gene,
Lots of therapy. I went all the way down with gbs march, 2006.Was released from the hospital July 28, 2006. When I was released, I was on the walker, and at that time, if one knee went, the other followed imediatly, so down I would go. Now in December here, they both start to give out once or twice a day, but not at the same time and there are enough recovery muscles that kick in so I don’t go all the way down. I still have the fear of either going down or loosing my balance. The balance thing is the hardest and I think it hinders recovery in that I walk differently now than I did before gbs. When first learning how to stand and walk again, they kept saying to lock one knee before shifting weight to the other, but now I have to unlearn it so I can walk the way I should.
JoeOctober 27, 2006 at 12:59 amI say grey, as it took me forever to sort out what was real and what all the drugs and sleep wanted to make me think, since I could only lay there paralized for so long.
