Her sore throat has been changed to a long ICU stay. The cause was for several months.

When Vanessa Abraham, a speech pathologist, began to get sick in 2019, she thought there was a bad case of the flu. She is tired and he is ah. Her voice was terrible. She was prescribed antibiotics but did not help.

A week later, Abraham woke up in the middle of the night and stood standing. She fell to the floor and struggled to breathe. Her husband took her to a local hospital, and Abraham was taken to the ICU and was intubated. The ventilator helped her breathing, but she could not say.

Doctors did not know what the cause was. Two days after admission, she was taken to UC San Diego Health, a larger hospital. There she met Dr. Jared Rosen, a medical student at the ICU rotation.

While Abraham was in the ICU, doctors proposed a number of diagnosis but not suitable. It was her continuous intubation that was more scary than the lack of answer. She could not speak or eat. She could not move a lot while fighting paralysis. Rosen said he was so weak that he could not raise his head without shed like a newborn.

Abraham told CBS News, “I knew what was happening.” “What I could imagine was beyond the worst.”

Abraham said that the only thing that relieved her anxiety during the period was Rosen’s long time by the bed and did his best to maintain her soul. As a medical student, he was less responsible than other members of her care team and could spend more time with Abraham. They also tried to develop a communication method for Abraham.

A few weeks later, Abraham’s symptoms began to improve. She is out of the respirator. A month later, she was released from the ICU. But doctors were still not closer to understanding the cause of her paralysis.

Abraham said, “There was no official label or term for what I had. The fear of not knowing was terrible.

Rare form of abnormal state diagnosis

Abraham still had a weakness after being discharged from the ICU, so he couldn’t lift his right arm and made it difficult to eat. Since then, she has needed more professional treatment, such as follow -up, swallowing and voice treatment of outpatients. She fought severe anxiety and depression. Sometimes, she was so overwhelming that she took her life.

One night, she searched Rosen online and found his email address. Abraham wrote whether he remembered himself. When he answered and said that he did so, it shed tears in her eyes and said, “It caused a certain level of joy.”

The hope took her for the next few months.

Finally, four months after her symptoms began, Abraham was diagnosed with a rare neurological disabled lines-Barre syndrome, which caused paralysis to worsen fibers around the nerve. According to Dr. Kiril Kiprovski, a neurological and director of NYU LANGONE’s neural muscle medicine department, paralysis starts from the legs and goes up. Abraham contracted a rare pharyngeal pharyngeal pharyngeal reinforcement variation in this state that attacked the diaphragm and neck muscles.

Kiprovski said that this variant is “very difficult to diagnose.” There is no test that can determine whether a person has Guillain-Barré syndrome or deformation, so doctors depend on clinical presentations. But Kiprovski said he could not be used to that state. One person per 78,000 people are diagnosed with Guiline-Bare Syndrome every year. According to the Cleveland Clinic. Only about 3%of these patients are diagnosed as a pharyngeal police anti -police. I found it.

Kiprovski says that people diagnosed with Guilin-Barefare syndrome tend to improve themselves, Kiprovski said. When Abraham was diagnosed, she was able to start receiving the treatment of immunoglobulin in the vein that a donor antibody provided to the patient to strengthen the immune system.

“It takes time”

Abraham continued to recover her slow recovery. Having a name about what happened to her helped her to accept the difficult process.

Abraham said, “I had to accept that this would take time in my head.” “And that’s how to operate a neurological disease. It takes time for the body to play and heal.”

After six years, Abraham still has a nerve muscle weakness, but it can be used much more daily life. She returned to work, and the voice without a voice in the ICU tells you about the interaction with the damaged patients. She spends as much time as possible in the gym and tries to strengthen her body. She also kept in touch with Rosen, who is concluding Critical Care Medicine in the Davis Medical Center of the University of California. He told CBS News that Abraham’s incident was inspired to study the medicine in the area.

Abraham’s recovery was not just physical. She began to attend the support group for those who were traumatized by the ICU. This experience helped her to recover from the fear of the lord of the ventilator. She tried to raise awareness of such a group. She also wrote a memoir about her experience.

Abraham said, “There is much more than being stronger in recovery.”