# What just happened?

**URL:** <https://forum.livingwithpolyneuropathy.org/t/what-just-happened/2405>\
**Category:** New Member Check In\
**Created:** [March 31, 2016, 8:35am UTC](https://forum.livingwithpolyneuropathy.org/t/what-just-happened/2405 "2016-03-31T08:35:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![MichaelDale](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.livingwithpolyneuropathy.org/michaeldale/32/2380_2.png) [@MichaelDale](https://forum.livingwithpolyneuropathy.org/u/MichaelDale)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 8:35am UTC](https://forum.livingwithpolyneuropathy.org/t/what-just-happened/2405/1 "2016-03-31T08:35:48Z")

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Hello everyone and thanks for being here. I was diagnosed with GBS after first symptoms on August 8 2015 and was intubated within about 24 hours. Spent nearly 40 days in the hospital. Took an ambulance ride home and started home-health-care/therapy which lasted about 120 days or more and am still recovering some 225+ days after original diagnosis. Seriously bad neuropathy now with probably a couple years of recovery ahead of me as a result. No guarantee of total healing though. It has been hard to say the least. Im alive. I can hug my wife and walk around and smell the roses so-to-speak. Picture is from The day I arrived home on about day 40 and about 2 or 3 weeks prior to diagnosis of GBS. 2 different people. ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/ben_polyn/original/2X/b/b4378312b5a73c5bc650b0fd4b230df2482e165c.JPG)

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**Author:** ![Charlotte](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.livingwithpolyneuropathy.org/charlotte/32/2348_2.png) [@Charlotte](https://forum.livingwithpolyneuropathy.org/u/Charlotte)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 3:53pm UTC](https://forum.livingwithpolyneuropathy.org/t/what-just-happened/2405/2 "2016-04-01T15:53:37Z")

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I'm so sorry you are on this journey, but glad you found this group. Keep positive about your recovery, it won't be easy and might take a while, but you can get back so much. Life does get better, hang in there!

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**Author:** ![Jessie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.livingwithpolyneuropathy.org/jessie/32/2289_2.png) [@Jessie](https://forum.livingwithpolyneuropathy.org/u/Jessie)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://forum.livingwithpolyneuropathy.org/t/what-just-happened/2405/3 "2016-04-01T19:26:22Z")

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WOW\_ congratulations for being so strong! You will continue to get better...hang in there!