Vanessa Abraham has a whole career to help people find their voices. So she thought that it was a cruel twist of destiny when she contracted a rare neurological disease that had taken her ability to speak.
Mrs. Abraham, a 45 -year -old California, helped to teach children over 15 years to overcome and talk about speech obstacles and began to experience serious cases of the flu in March 2019.
She suffered from extreme fatigue, torso, zones and vomiting, and soon her voice began to disappear.
She was quickly taken to the local emergency room, but she had to move to the intensive care room after facing breathing and progressive paralysis within two days.
Mrs. Abraham was not a stranger to the ICU, but he treated the patient in the room during her career. But now she was a patient.
Mom said on dailymail.com: ‘In ICU, I couldn’t move my arm or raise my head up. The neck muscles were so weak that the neck fell to the side by default, and I had to hold on to the neck support. My condition was great for speaking most.
‘I was a language pathology who could not communicate linguistically.’
Vanessa Abraham, a 45 -year -old mother, has spent more than 15 years to help children overcome language obstacles and teach them to talk someday. She lost her voice.
Some people believed that she was suffering from multiple sclerosis of the central nervous system, but others thought that there was a neuronitis Optica (rare people affecting CNS).
But she will go for a year without diagnosis.
But it did not stop healing. She fought dailymail.com as hard as possible for a four -year -old daughter and feared that she would never talk again with a young girl again.
She said: ‘I couldn’t move myself in bed, I couldn’t use the toilet, and I supplied and fought the tube through the G-tube.
‘I was a language pathology who could not communicate linguistically. So I had to rely on things like eyes and movements, alphabet boards or letters of paper. ‘
In the end, she needed an institutional cutting, which creates an openings in a windpipe to insert the tube to help the oxygen reaches the lungs.
Because of this, she also needed a Passy MUIR valve (PMV) for communication.
PMV is a speech valve designed to facilitate communication for bronchial people or those with artificial respiratory tracts.
It redirects the air flow through the vocal cords, mouth and nose, enabling voice and improving communication.
As her condition worsened, experts continued to find an answer, but they were empty. Nevertheless, Mrs. Abraham began to rehabilitate intensive ‘nature’.
She said on the website: ‘I took the most natural approach that I could find for recovery. I performed acupuncture, skull eccentric therapy, chiro fractic treatment, endermologie (massage using a device that promotes blood circulation), stretch therapy and laser.
‘I completely avoided prescription drugs to solve the pain. But I was injected by IVIG (antibody) according to the recommendation of neurology and specialists.
She also worked with another speech pathology in the ICU and regained her voice while rehabilitation.
In a few months, she started I slowly motivated myself to swallow, speak, and move slowly, and eventually sent home without diagnosis, and told me to look at a neurologist to find an answer.
‘I couldn’t move myself in bed, I couldn’t use the toilet, and I supplied and fought the tube through the G-tube. Eventually I needed institutional cutting and used the Passy MUIR valve (PMV) for communication. ‘She told dailymail.com.
She claims that her biggest motivation is a four -year -old daughter who is worried that she will never say again.
Then, until June 2019, Mrs. Abraham visited a new neurologist at the University of California in San Diego and recognized the symptoms.
She said: ‘After a few months of leaving the hospital environment, they were finally diagnosed. Because I saw a new neurologist.
‘The neurologist was able to diagnose me in a few minutes, depending on what I presented (cervical, bracket, paralysis). She was convinced that she saw this before she had a career and had a GB PCB variable. ‘
Mrs. Abraham was diagnosed with a rare type of old line-Barre syndrome (GBS).
GBS is a rare neurological disorder that is responsible for sending information from the brain to another part of the brain by accidentally attacking a part of the peripheral nerve.
The state usually begins to spread on the feet and legs and moves to the arm and face. But in the case of Mrs. Abraham, it is difficult for a doctor to start with her face and go down and diagnose her.
She said in dailymail.com: ‘In the ICU, they tested GBS, but they disbanded quickly because my transformation went on a different process of paralysis. Typical variants went up from their feet and mine took the opposite.
The PCB variant of GBS causes rapid weaknesses to the nerves of the cervical spine and shoulders of the mouth and neck muscles, the neck.
In addition, the reflection is completely eliminated in the upper limbs and arms.
Here are some weaknesses in your mouth and neck, you can make it difficult to say, swallow, chew and breathe. It can also be a person who hits a horse, drools from the mouth, leads to a face paralysis.
The weaknesses of the neck and shoulders are difficult to raise their heads and nervous problems -all symptoms of Mrs. Abraham.
Over a few months, she began to slowly swallow, speak, and move slowly.
Mrs. Abraham took a picture here when he spent time with his husband.
According to the BMJ Journal, most neurological and specialists are not used to PCB deformation and often incorrectly diagnose them as brain stroke, Misten Nia Gravy (chronic people that cause muscle immunity and fatigue) or Botulism (fatal addiction and paralysis by bacteria).
The cause of GBS and its variants is still unknown, but it is believed to be caused by the immune system response to infection. GBS is also related to the Covid vaccine.
GBS is diagnosed with about 1 out of 78,000 people around the world. About one out of 100,000 people in the United States are affected.
There is no known treatment for GBS or its variations, but therapies such as plasma exchange and immunoglobulin injections (a protein where the immune system naturally attack invading organisms) can relieve symptoms and reduce recovery time within 2 weeks after GBS development.
Most people eventually tend to move the patient to the rehabilitation environment even the most serious cases of GBS and medical professionals.
But six years later, six years later, Mrs. Abraham, who can now speak clearly and walk, said:Recovery was terrible and long and needed a lot of mental health services to solve serious depression, anxiety and suicide.
‘I couldn’t drive for nine months and I couldn’t eat six people. I did not work for a year. I had a lot of pain, discomfort and tired. I took a nap every day and spent a lot of time in the treatment of outpatient patients, gymnasiums, rest and depression. ‘
She also revealed how she interacted with people and how to learn how to speak again. It was the most tired, scary and difficult procedure I had experienced in my life.
‘Because of the nature of my disease, the story has become difficult again. I had a very high level of secretion that needed a lot of inhalation to use PMV and talk again. It is physically tired. It was too hard to use PMV for the first time, so it took less than a minute.
‘Before PMV, I used all other forms as SLPs I can talk about. I pointed to the picture, entered it on the letterboard, and when I was serious and could not move on my body, I used my eyes. ‘
Six years later in the diagnosis of changing her life, Mrs. Abraham can now say clearly.
Despite her recovery, Mrs. Abraham told dailymail.com that her disease changed her life forever.
She said: ‘I lost myself. I lost my once and I had to say goodbye to many dreams about my future. I was so depressed, I missed myself and wanted to be a mother I imagined.
‘I am not as active as once. I was able to run once, hike the mountains for miles, ride a bicycle, and participate in yoga classes. I had to stop everything because I wasn’t just strong and I couldn’t do this safely.
‘Eating tube is depressed and separated. I could no longer sit at the table and eat with my family. It is isolation. I couldn’t work anymore. I lost my identification not only for my mother and wife but also as a SLP/work mother.
‘I no longer felt suitable for the world where I was once an active participant.
In life, she told dailymail.com that she is still struggling physically and mentally.
She said: ‘I’m six years old, but I’m still participating in the weekly ICU support group for PICS. I can’t sleep all night without anxiety -I have insomnia. ‘
Nevertheless, she is trying to raise her daughter in the future, and operates a neurological rehabilitation project called NEU healing to help patients recover from neurological disorders.
After all, Mrs. Abraham said: “” “It is surrounded by people who get it.
‘People who understand the sadness, loss, depression and anxiety you feel in difficult time. For me, I learned from the ICU Support Group for PICS and the US Warrior Prayer who experienced tragedy like me. ‘
