Name: Sheena Marie Rangel
Origin: San Diego

Hi my name is Sheena and I had Guillain Barre Syndrome on April of 2001 and I'm only 17 years old I got it when I was 16. But I got it twice the first time I got it worse the second time it was not that bad.

I went to the doctor three times and they were telling me it was stress because I was having headaches and I lost my balance I had to walk all over my house holding on to the walls. finally I was having seizures on my couch and I went to the hospital and they found out I had Spinal Meningitis but they still did not know what was wrong with me so they took me to a different hospital the next day. A neurologist and my doctor found out what I had.they told my parents and I was so drugged up that I don't even remember what things happened around me. There is no cure for (GBS) they can only control it by plasma.

I came to the point that I could not walk or turn myself on the bed I was in ICU for 2 weeks I could not see my son for those 2 weeks. I really thought I was going to die but they told me that they were going to take good care of me.

After the plasma I went in to rehab a for a month. I got to go home and but I went home with a cane. Then two weeks later I had no sensation in my feet. One time I was reaching for my cane by my sons crib and i feel to the floor and hit my head on the crib. Then one day when I went to speech therapy my jaw went cricket and they sent me home and I stopped at my neurologists office and he did tests for three hours. He told me I got the (GBS) back and that I had to go back to the hospital so I went and they did a spinal tap on me and put a catheter in my neck. Sorry if I don't spell right. And now I'm fine but i can't get sick for a year or I can get it again. That was the scariest thing that has happened to me.