Entries by angelo

Jeanne Griggs

Jeanne began feeling tired and noticed weakness on her right side. After falling in her bathroom, she went to the emergency room and was diagnosed with…

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Aleshia Brown

Aleshia lives with multiple sclerosis and recently experienced an exacerbation of symptoms after returning home from a trip to Las Vegas. It began with numbness and weakness in her right leg, soon progressing to her…

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Dr. Christopher Rucker

Having previously experienced Guillain-Barré syndrome 18 years ago—a neurological disorder where the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks the nerves—Dr. Rucker recently began to recognize familiar symptoms…

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Christopher Biggs

One evening, Christopher began experiencing a right-sided headache that fluctuated in intensity. By midnight, it had worsened, causing nausea and vomiting. After showering, his wife helped him to bed, where the headache intensified. Christopher told his wife that it felt like…

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John Hardy

Following a fall, his wife noticed an increase in the severity of John’s symptoms, which include involuntary movements. This led to a trip to the emergency room where John was diagnosed with…

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Shirley Marcoux

Eighty-two-year-old Shirley Marcoux from Gaffney, South Carolina, was rushed to the ER after her daughter noticed she was severely lethargic and experiencing breathing difficulties…

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Jeanne Lacey

A few days after undergoing an exploratory laparotomy for a hernia repair, Jeanne developed complications. She was diagnosed with a perforated bowel, leading to a colostomy and the use of a wound vacuum. Her hospital stay…

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Eric Gary

Eric underwent C2-7 laminectomies, where the doctor enlarged the spinal canal to relieve pressure on his spinal cord and nerves. His surgery went well; however, he suffered from weakness in his right upper and lower extremities. The neurosurgeon explained…

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Mathis Smiley

Unable to pick up his TV remote one day, Mathis Smiley thought he had slept on his arm wrong. Not thinking anything of it, he later went to eat with his family and felt fine. Later that night…

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