The ER doctor told Emerson and her parents he thought it was Guillain-Barre Syndrome. She had already lost the ability to walk when she was admitted to the Hannibal hospital. Others have it bad like I did. It's just a shot in the dark. I could get worse anywhere from four days to four weeks, and it could take me four days to four weeks to recover.
People have it for a couple of days, and they are over it.
After one week at HRH, she had to be put on a ventilator and was transferred to Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. She recalls being put on a respirator on Halloween and being transferred to the hospital on Nov. 1. They did not know if it was too late. But she had another crisis before beginning her recovery. They had to suction it out, and I got pneumonia from that.