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(More customer reviews)I read this book 19 months after my husband got sick with Gullain-Barre syndrome. He is still trying to rehab. Reading this book helped me to understand that recovery takes longer than you think it should sometime. There is so little information. I was given one page explaining GBS at the onset of this syndrome. One page doesn't cover the months and years that it takes. That is why books written by the patient or family is so important.
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I assure you, though, there is nothing trite about coming down with Guillain-Barrè syndrome. For the person hit by it, it's war and revolution wrapped in one: A catastrophe, an upheaval, a devastating blow.
But also an invaluable experience and a possibility for renewal.
I wouldn't be what I am now, a man at peace with himself and the world, had I not come down with, and fought back from, this terrible ailment. But I don't want to sound excessive. It isn't terminal cancer at young age, or trauma-induced coma and vegetative state; but, as Joseph Heller said, it's no laughing matter, either. The blessing about Guillain-Barrè syndrome—and I mean that with only a little bit of irony—is that it doesn't affect the gray matter upstairs. You know it's bad, but you also know it can be defeated, and the struggle to overcome it lends a tremendous meaning of truthfulness to the old saying: "That which does not kill you..." You know the rest. It can paralyze you completely, and, occasionally, do you in, but the road back or, as I imply in my title, the uphill struggle from the abyss is Herculean and character forming.
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