Meet Vanessa, a young college grad who fought her way back from Guillain-Barré syndrome, using only her eyes to communicate, and is now standing strong against all odds.
Dr. Lisa Wenzel, who works at TIRR Memorial Hermann where Vanessa was eventually transferred for rehabilitation, explains Vanessa's diagnosis of Guillain-Barré syndrome or GBS. "It's an acute inflammatory condition of the nervous system. This is not the spinal cord in the brain, but actually the nerve. It's also called Acute Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy , It's a big word, but it's where the immune system attacks the peripheral nerves," states Dr.
The only body part she could move for a month was her eyes. Her mom and brothers would list the entire alphabet and wait for her to blink, so she could spell words, one letter at a time. "It just took a lot of patience from my brothers and mother and them saying the alphabet hundreds of times throughout the day because that was the only way I felt I could be a little sane," explains Vanessa.
"When she came to the hospital, she was dependent for everything. She couldn't move any extremities. She was having problems with her vision, required a ventilator to breathe, required a feeding tube," says Dr. Lisa Wenzel with TIRR.
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