me, the patient, to diagnose myself, I stammered, “Well, I read something about Guillain-Barre… but that seems so rare that I-… I haven’t really considered it a possibility.”“Right, well, your case is presenting a bit differently than we typically see with that, but all of the other tests are normal, so we’re going to have to wait and see what happens,” the doctor responded. “You could either pull out of it or rapidly deteriorate until you become totally paralyzed and need a ventilator, so let us know immediately if it gets worse.”And I was on my way.I held it together until I got home and then burst into tears.
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