Posted on 02/24/2014 8:12:51 PM PST by 1 spark
Is Guillain-Barre syndrome a psychological affliction? Because that’s the only problem Boston Children’s says she has. Guillain-Barre syndrome was never a diagnoses.
They are sending her into foster care because the hospital has to release her now. Not because she’s gotten better.
Getting an ER doctor is luck of the draw. If you get a jerk it can disrupt your life. It happened to me when my son was four. I had to get on my hands and knees and beg another doctor on staff to take over. Thankful he did.
Guillain-Barré is a neurological condition that causes weakness and paralysis. It is caused by infectious disease, most often influenza.
Given that they had taken her to Boston Children’s because of the flu, that would be one *possible* explanation of her being wheelchair bound after having been mobile. There are other explanations.
The fact that she was sent to foster care means that her condition is stable, if not improving. No one is released from the hospital if their condition is deteriorating (unless they have a terminal illness and wish to die somewhere else, but that is a different matter).
I don't understand the point of bringing it up, unless you are saying that Boston's Children might have missed that during her ER visit, which would make them doubly incompetent.
If you know what it is, then why did you ask?
Boston Children's is saying it's all in her head.
I am not aware of anything Boston Children's has said. As I pointed out previously, we are only hearing one side of the story. We do not know the hospital's side, nor do we know the actual diagnoses.
I don't understand the point of bringing it up, unless you are saying that Boston's Children might have missed that during her ER visit, which would make them doubly incompetent.
The point was to suggest one possible explanation for the girl having been ambulatory at some point in the past, while being confined to a wheelchair now. Guillain-Barre syndrome is a known complication of influenza, which she reportedly had.
Unfortunately, the other explanations I can think of are more supportive of Munchausen by proxy.
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