So my friend in the hospital was finally diagnosed. Turns out he has something called Guillain-Barré syndrome - a wonderful little disorder in which the body's immune system attacks part of the peripheral nervous system. Now doesn't that just sound pleasant. Pleasant like a run on the beach on a sunny day.
Whatever happened to those exotic, fun diseases, like scurvy and the plague? Now there's diseases that attack the myelin sheath? These diseases are getting way too smart. They need to be flunked. Now. Enough already.
Shit, an ex art director of mine had that. He was virtually paralyzed for a while and took a few months to recover, had to learn to walk again, but he recovered completely. Hope yr friend is ok.
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