#guillain-barré syndrome

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Guillain-Barré syndrome girl on wheels

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Yukimura Seiichi is a GNC gay asexual tennisunrisic trans man with Guillain-Barré syndrome, PCOS, and PTSD from his stay in the hospital who uses age regression to cope and uses he/him pronouns!

He's dating Sanada Genichiro, an unlabled MLM cis person who uses he/him pronouns!

Yanagi Renji is a demiromantic asexual agender person who uses he/him, they/them, and it/its pronouns!

Nio Masaharu is a romantically fluid greysexual intersex genderfluid person who uses any pronouns!

Marui Bunta is a pansexual transmasculine candygender person who uses he/him, sweet/sweets, candy/candies, and bun/buns pronouns, and he has a crush on Akutagawa Jiro!

Jackal Kuwahara is an omniromantic asexual gender apathetic person who uses no pronouns or it/its!

Hiroshi Yagyu is an autistic gay asexual transmasculine person who uses he/him and they/them pronouns!

Kirihara Akaya is a bisexual trans man with endometriosis and BPD who uses he/him and angel/angels pronouns!

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[cbphysiotherapy]

It is thought that GB syndrome occurs due to an autoimmune response after exposure to acute infections like a chest infection or diarrhea. It attacks the peripheral nerves and damages the myelin, an insulating layer of the nerve which is important in nerve impulse conduction.

[geeknik]

My end of the year review is a hopeful look towards 2024 because 2023 will go down as the worst follow-up to a bad year ever.

August 2022, Dad passes.

November 2022, Wife t-boned in an Oklahoma City intersection; diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury.

15 January 2023, I am transported by ambulance and admitted to the hospital for trouble breathing & walking. 🚑 I am diagnosed with Influenza A and Pneumonia which was the trigger for a rare condition called Guillain-Barré Syndrome. It’s where the immune system decides the peripheral nervous system is the enemy and attacks those nerve endings. 🦠

Medically induced sleep, ventilator, feeding tube, PIC line.

23 January 2023, wake up on a ventilator and find I am completely paralyzed from the neck down. 🥺 While I was asleep, I was treated for ventilator pneumonia, had a blood transfusion and 5 rounds of plasmapheresis. Basically, they replaced my icky blood plasma with nice fresh plasma from the blood bank. 🩸

26 January 2023, extubated and off the ventilator for about 3 hours when I suffer cardiac arrest and briefly die. 10 chest compressions plus a shot of something and I’m back on the ventilator when I wake up again. 💀 They said I had carbon dioxide poisoning, which caused the cardiac arrest. Now there is talk of a possible tracheotomy if my body refuses to tolerate being off the ventilator. That would have meant shaving off my 13 year beard. And being moved to a long term care facility. I’m against all of these ideas. 🤬 Months after my release, the nurse manager of the ICU assured me that shaving off the beard would have been absolutely avoided. 😍

A week or so later, they remove the ventilator once more, but this time, thank fuck, my body remembers how to breathe. I’m starting to regain movement in my fingers and toes and then I can lift my arms and legs. The nerve pain is un-fucking-bearable.

I’m awake! And still bearded! Huzzah! 🎉

15 February 2023 left the ICU, transferred to an inpatient rehabilitation hospital right next door, where I, in my 40s, have to learn how to walk again.

15 March 2023 A very long and exhausting 30 days later I go home with a walker but within a week or so I’m pretty much walking on my own. During my time in the rehab hospital we discover I am incredibly allergic to Lyrica. 🫠 I won’t go into detail but let’s just say it was the worst bad trip ever.

I lost ~40 pounds on the ICU diet. Fast forward to today and I’m about 90-95% of where I was a year ago although I still have a lot peripheral nerve pain, balance issues, and I’m always tired. Thankfully the nerve pain is nothing like it was in the ICU.

My beard and I going through some things.

In the end, I am incredibly lucky to have the love and support of my wife, my mom, my sister, my nieces, and of course my Internet hooligan friends, and last but definitely not least, my #spiderSilk🕷️🕸️ family, there to help me persevere and make a speedier than expected recovery. ❤️‍🩹

I am hopeful that 2024 will be the year I shrug off GBS for good. 🤙���

I’m not crying, you’re crying.

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Neurological Disorders: Unraveling the Complexities of the Nervous System

Neurological disorders are a diverse group of medical conditions that affect the nervous system, leading to various impairments in the brain and spinal cord. These conditions can range from mild to severe, causing significant challenges in daily life for affected individuals. In this comprehensive article, we will delve into the world of neurological disorders, exploring their causes, symptoms,…

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FDA Approves First RSV Vaccine, Arexvy, for Individuals 60 and Older

Good news! FDA approves Arexvy, the first RSV vaccine for individuals 60 and older, reducing the risk of severe LRTD by 94.1%. #RSVvaccine #Arexvy #FDAapproval

The FDA has approved the first respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine, Arexvy, for individuals 60 years of age and older. RSV is a highly contagious virus that can cause severe lower respiratory tract disease (LRTD), which affects the lungs and can cause life-threatening pneumonia and bronchiolitis. Arexvy significantly reduced the risk of developing RSV-associated LRTD by 82.6% and reduced…

[magicmalcolm]

Five years ago I was recovering from a life-threatening condition. I had been in intensive care, hooked up to several tubes, was suffering from temporary full body paralysis and facing months if not years of recovery. Even now after physiotherapy my left arm is still buggered.

This year I visited Orkney and made the near six mile trek up steep hills, muddy and rocky pathways to see the Old Man of Hoy with my sister. It was an incredibly fulfilling hike and shows just how far I've come since falling ill.

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Si se puede...

[oldschoolfrp]

Influential RPG adventure writer, artist, and video game creator Jennell Jaquays has died.

She was a founder of the Dungeoneer zine before it was sold to Judges Guild. Her D&D adventures Dark Tower and Caverns of Thracia became classics, often studied as examples of adventure design. She also wrote and illustrated for TSR, Metagaming, Steve Jackson Games, and many other publishers. Her video game career included developing many of Coleco's titles in the 1980s and level design for the Quake sequels at id Software in the 90s, and she co-founded the SMU Guildhall video game program.

She recently was hospitalized for symptoms of Guillain-Barré syndrome, and a GoFundMe to cover her medical expenses is still active.

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[vomitdodger]

It’s still a BS article to downplay the true tragedy. From the article:

The researchers looked for 13 adverse events of special interest that occurred in vaccine recipients for up to 42 days after shots were administered. These conditions included Guillain-Barré syndrome, Bell’s palsy, convulsions, myocarditis and pericarditis.

“The safety signals identified in this study should be evaluated in the context of their rarity, severity, and clinical relevance,” the researchers wrote.

“Moreover, overall risk–benefit evaluations of vaccination should take the risk associated with infection into account, as multiple studies demonstrated higher risk of developing the events under study, such as GBS, myocarditis, or ADEM, following SARS-CoV-2 infection than vaccination.”

Just 13 adverse events? The actual vaccine insert lists pages and pages. And just out to 42 days?

It’s just another cover to say, yeah there’s something there but it’s not nearly as bad as it’s made out to be. Still sAfE aNd eFfEcTiVe.

[r-rook-studio]

Jennell Jaquays, a queer woman whose work as a dungeon designer in RPGs and level designer in video games is the stuff of legend, is suffering from Guillain-Barré syndrome. No matter kind of games you enjoy, if you love richly constructed settings with messy maps, messy factions, and messy politics, Jennell was one of the pioneers. Please show her some support!

[christian-dubuis-santini]

Quelques citations:

«La médecine a pris crédit pour certaines avancées dans le domaine de la santé qu’elle ne mérite pas. Le choléra, le typhus, le tétanos, la diphtérie et la coqueluche, etc., étaient en régression avant que les vaccins spécifiques ne soient utilisés. En fait, cette régression résultait de l’amélioration des conditions d'hygiène, de l'évacuation des eaux d'égout, et de la distribution de la nourriture et de l’eau.»

Andrew Weil, Health and Healing.

«Les vaccins donnent les maladies et en créent de nouvelles. La preuve scientifique qu’une provocation arti­ficielle d’une maladie empêche l’apparition d’une maladie naturelle n’a jamais été établie.»

Dr Paul-Émile CHÈVREFILS.

«Les vaccinations en bas âge ont des effets dangereux sur le système immunitaire de l’enfant, ne protègent pas l’enfant durant sa vie ouvrant la voie à d’autres maladies suite à une dysfonction immunitaire.»

Drs. H. BUTTRAM et J. HOFFMANN.

«La plupart des personnes qui sont mortes de la variole la contractèrent après avoir été vaccinées.»

Dr. J.W. HODGE, The Vaccination Superstition.

«Certaines souches de vaccins peuvent être impliquées dans des maladies dégénératives telles que l’arthrite rhumatoïde, la leucémie, le diabète et la sclérose en plaques.»

Dr. G. DETTMAN, Australian Nurses Journal

«Le risque de souffrir de complications sérieuses prove­nant des vaccins contre la grippe est beaucoup plus grand que la grippe elle-même.»

Dr. William FROSEHAVER

«Les vaccins peuvent causer l’arthrite chronique, la sclérose en plaques, le lupus érythémateux, le Parkinson et le cancer.»

Pr. R. SIMPSON, American Cancer Society

«Contrairement aux croyances antérieurement établies à propos des vaccins du virus de la polio, l’évidence existe maintenant que le vaccin vivant ne peut être administré sans risque de produire la paralysie.»

Dr. SALK (créateur du vaccin original de la polio dans les années 50).

«Le déclin du tétanos en tant que maladie commença avant l’introduction de l’anatoxine dans la population.»

Medical Journal of Australia, 1978.

«Les personnes vaccinées contre la grippe ont approxi­mativement 10 fois plus de chances de contracter le syndrome de Guillain-Barré que ceux qui n’ont pas été vaccinées.»

Center for Disease Control, 1977.

«Il existe un lien entre l’autisme et la vaccination. Les enfants sont blessés par vaccinations.»

Dr. Bernard RIMLAND, directeur et fondateur du Autism Research Institute of San Diego.

«Pendant 23 ans, j’ai observé que les enfants non vaccinés étaient plus sains et plus robustes que les enfants vaccinés. Les allergies, l’asthme et des perturbations comportementales étaient clairement plus fréquentes chez les jeunes patients vaccinés. De plus, ils souffraient plus souvent ou plus sévèrement de maladies infectieuses que les autres.»

Dr. Philip INCAO.

«Sur les 3,3 millions d’enfants vaccinés annuellement aux États-Unis avec le DCT, 16 038 démontrèrent des crises aiguës et des pleurs persistants ­­‑‑ ce qui est considéré par plusieurs neurologistes comme l’indication d’une irritation du système nerveux central ; 8 484 eurent des convul­sions ou furent en état de choc dans les 48 heures suivant l’injection du DCT.»

Dr. Allan HINMAN et Jeffrey COPELAN, Journal of the American Medical Association.

«Un enfant a huit fois plus de chances de mourir trois jours après avoir reçu le vaccin DCT (diphtérie, coqueluche, tétanos) qu’un enfant non vacciné.»

The American Journal of Epidemiology, 1992.

«Chaque fois qu’un enfant meurt de méningite dans les premières semaines de sa vie, on doit suspecter le BCG.»

Dr Jean ELMIGER, La médecine retrouvée.

«Les campagnes publicitaires en faveur des vaccins représentent un véritable lavage de cerveau : désinforma­tion, trucage des statistiques, amalgame savant de l'effet protecteur du vaccin avec d'autres affections, annonce de possibilité de contagion totalement fantaisiste et enfin banalisation de l'acte vaccinal.»

Dr Alain SCOHY.

«La quasi-totalité des cas de poliomyélite recensés aux USA, de 1980 à 1994, a été causée par l'administration du vaccin oral atténué.»

Dépêche AFP, 1er février 1997.

« Il n'a jamais été prouvé scientifiquement que les vaccins étaient efficaces et sans danger.»

Dr Louis DE BROUWER, Vaccination, erreur médicale du siècle.

«Le système immunitaire est sévèrement endommagé suite aux vaccinations courantes.»

Le Concours médical, 20 janvier 1974.

«On risque sa vie en se soumettant à une intervention probablement inefficace afin d'éviter une maladie qui ne surviendra vraisemblablement jamais.»

Dr. Kris GAUBLOMME.

«Les 2/3 des 103 enfants décédés de la mort subite du nourrisson avaient reçu le vaccin DTP (DCT ?) dans les trois semaines précédant leur mort. Certains même étaient morts le lendemain.»

Dr. TORCH, Neurology, 1982.

«Les vaccinés, loin de constituer un barrage protecteur vis-à-vis des non-vaccinés, sont au contraire dangereux et peuvent contaminer le reste de la population, puisqu'il est prouvé qu'ils peuvent être porteurs et transmetteurs de virus poliomyélitiques par voie intestinale, et peut-être par d'autres voies.»

Dr Yves COUZIGOU.

«Depuis 1957, l'OMS ne recense dans les statistiques que les formes paralytiques de poliomyélite, alors qu'avant la vaccination, toutes les formes de polio étaient incluses, ce qui permet de faire apparaître une régression des cas qui est loin d'être vérifiée.»

Dr. SCHEIBNER, expert australien.

«Après l'échec retentissant du vaccin Salk (au Massa­chusetts, 75 % des cas paralytiques avaient reçu trois doses ou davantage du vaccin), une parade géniale fut trouvée pour sortir l'industrie du médicament du pétrin : on décida de nouvelles normes pour l'établisse­ment du diagnostic de la polio.»

Pr. GREENBERG.

«Si le principe de la vaccination était concevable au début du 20e siècle du fait que le monde médical et scientifique ignorait pratiquement tout de la biologie moléculaire, des virus et rétrovirus endogènes et même exogènes et du principe de la recombinaison de ces derniers, il en va tout autrement depuis quelques décennies. Continuer à vacciner des populations entières -- des centaines de millions d'individus depuis 1978 -- constitue une erreur monumentale et un quasi-génocide.»

Dr Louis de Brouwer, Sida, le vertige.

«La vaccination est le modèle de l'incertitude, des interac­tions et relations imprévisibles. Elle se situe aux antipodes de l'esprit scientifique.»

Dr Jacques KALMAR.

«Dans plusieurs pays en voie de développement, la fréquence de ces maladies a augmenté, allant même jusqu'à quintupler depuis la vaccination.»

Pr Lépine, Médecine praticienne, n° 467.

«En réalité, la baisse de nombreuses maladies provient d’une meilleure hygiène et d’une meilleure nourriture qui ont permis de développer le système immunitaire.»

Peter Duesberg, professeur de biologie moléculaire et cellulaire à l'Université Berkeley.

«Un virus, même atténué, peut reprendre sa virulence; c'est notamment le cas du virus polio vaccinal, qui rede­vient pathogène après son passage dans l'intestin et contribue à contaminer l'entourage. Les cas de polio chez les contacts des vaccinés par le vaccin oral sont bien connus.»

Dr Garcia Silva, Le Maroc médical, n° 43.

«L'introduction volontaire et non nécessaire de virus infectieux dans un corps humain est un acte dément qui ne peut être dicté que par une grande ignorance de la viro­logie et des processus d'infection. Le mal qui est fait est incalculable.»

Pr R. Delong, virologue et immunologue de l'Université Toledo aux États-Unis.

«En 1945, la Hollande était le pays d'Europe le plus touché par la tuberculose. En 1974, sans jamais avoir eu recours au BCG, la maladie y était totalement éradiquée. A l'inverse, la tuberculose reprenait de la vigueur partout où le BCG est encore pratiqué.»

Bulletin statistique du ministère de la Santé publique et de la Sécurité sociale, n° 1, 1974.

«La présence d’un œdème cérébral chez des enfants en bas âge qui meurent peu de temps après une vaccination contre l’hépatite B est inquiétante. Les enfants de moins de 14 ans ont plus de chance de mourir ou de souffrir de réactions négatives après avoir reçu le vaccin de l’hépatite B que d’attraper la maladie.»

Dr. Jane ORIENT, médecin, directrice de l’Association des médecins et chirurgiens américains

«Une vaccination est toujours, biologiquement et immu­nitairement parlant, une offense contre l'organisme.»

Pr R. Bastin, Concours médical, 1er février 1986.

«Toute vaccination peut provoquer une encéphalite légère ou grave.»

Dr. Harris COULTER, Vaccination Social Violence and Criminality.

«Le pire vaccin de tous est celui contre la coqueluche. Il est responsable d'un grand nombre de morts et d'un grand nombre de dommages cérébraux irréversibles chez les nouveau-nés.»

Dr. Kalokerinos, Sunwell Tops, 24 mai 1987.

«Peu de médecins sont disposés à attribuer un décès ou une complication à une méthode qu’ils ont eux-mêmes recommandée et à laquelle ils croient.»

Pr. Georges DICK, British Medical Journal, juillet 1971.

«Les micro-organismes inoculés à travers toutes les barrières naturelles entraînent chez la majorité des indi­vidus des pathologies chroniques dont les symptômes ne sont pas faciles à rattacher à leur cause initiale.»

Dr Jacqueline Bousquet.

«Ne vous hâtez pas de faire tomber la fièvre de votre malade ; s’il souffre d’une affection virale, vous risquez de compromettre sa guérison.»

Pr André LWOFF Prix Nobel de médecine.

[1863-project]

I've been seeing screenshots of this tweet making the rounds lately:

I did a thread on Twitter adding some historical context, but it's easier to write long-form stuff on websites like Tumblr, so I'll do it here, too.

This is a screenshot from a 1944 election propaganda film called Hell-Bent For Election. The locomotives do indeed represent FDR (left) and his rival, Thomas E. Dewey (right). Dewey would famously try to run again in 1948 and was considered the favorite against Harry Truman, leading to the famous Dewey Defeats Truman newspaper headline. The film was directed by Chuck Jones (yes, that Chuck Jones) and distributed by United Auto Workers. It was made amidst WWII, and it isn't subtle about making sure the viewer knows a vote against FDR is a vote for Hitler. (Weirdly enough, there's a character that can easily be read as an antisemitic caricature trying to get the protagonist to vote for Dewey despite what we know was happening in retrospect; this is actually quite jarring and uncomfortable from a historical perspective.)

OP probably doesn't know this, but FDR isn't being depicted as a bullet train. The Shinkansen doesn't show up until the 1960s, and at any rate, the US was very much at war with Japan at the time this film was made, so there's no way FDR would be depicted using Japanese railroad technology even if it did exist at the time. What he is being shown as, however, is a streamliner.

Notice this gap here? Streamlined steam locomotives usually still had their drive wheels exposed to a degree to make maintenance easier. In particular, FDR resembles a New York Central Mercury (4-6-4 Hudson) with his chin as an added cowcatcher.

The streamlined cladding for the Mercury was designed by Henry Dreyfuss, who would go on a few years later to design arguably the most famous streamlined NYC Hudson locomotives: the Dreyfuss Hudsons.

You can see a bit of influence from these in the FDR locomotive, as well, as it has a ridge along the top. These pulled prestigious passenger trains known for high speed, including the flagship 20th Century Limited. FDR was, of course, from old money and could afford that sort of thing, but that's likely not the reason they depicted him as a streamliner here.

Streamlined locomotives emerged in the 1930s despite the economic hardships in the United States at the time. They were designed to evoke a sense of speed and modernity, and they represented a society moving forward. By depicting FDR as one, it projects a sense of strength, especially in comparison to the tired old Dewey locomotive, which looks nearly half a century old. This was a crucial portrayal considering that FDR had polio (or possibly Guillain-Barré Syndrome, another explanation) and due to ableism he had to hide that affliction to avoid being seen by opponents (both political and wartime) as "weak." Additionally, Dewey's consist (the train cars he's pulling) is made up of outdated policies, including a caboose labeled with "Jim Crow."

I find the use of a streamliner rather ironic because at the time this film was made, many streamlined locomotives were being un-streamlined so the extra metal could be used for the war effort. It's a bit of an odd choice from that angle, but it's clear that the imagery of streamliners and what they represented in the minds of the public was still going strong.

Also worth noting: yes, FDR won the November 1944 election and began a fourth term in office. He died only a few months later, in April 1945, and was succeeded by his Vice President, Truman, who finished his term and then, as mentioned above, beat Dewey again in an upset to win a full term in 1948.

(Truman gleefully holding up the incorrect Chicago Tribune at St. Louis Union Station, 1948)

So that's that, I suppose! You can watch the film here, as it's in the public domain:

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