A two-person father who felt the needle in his hands was only the pins and the needles were paralyzed a few days later-and could not even close his eyes for weeks.
Luke Pickering, a Nottingham mechanics, worked normally when he first noticed a strange feeling in his hands.
The next day he had progressed to the toes, and despite trying to continue the normal work, he soon got worse.
“I was lowering myself down the stairs and feeling weak and thought I was going to leave him,” said Mr Picker. IndependentHuman
He insisted that he was still able to go to work, but his 31-year-old Alix realized that he was not good and took him to A&A, where he had Giline-Bar syndrome-a rare disease that the immune system begins to attack the nervous system.
From that moment in November 2023, Mr. Picker had not returned home for another 94 days.
“I thought I was coming back soon, but after the week, I was just weaker and weaker. I went from the cane to get a full lift.
“I was paralyzed from the head down. Even my face was paralyzed so I had to sleep with my eyes for three weeks.”
Typically caused by virus infection, the disease usually causes needle, numbness or pin and needle in the arms and legs before the symptoms spread to other parts of the body and cause muscle weakness.
However, Mr. Pickering did not remember any colds, fever, or gastric shapes before his symptoms.
The disease, which affects about 1,300 people in the UK annually, is treated through immunotherapy such as intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) and plasma exchange.
Mr. Picker had IVIG, but his condition was deteriorated, so the doctors decided to transfer him to the intensive care unit at NUH Hospital.
“I can feel worse for myself. I prepared myself to say goodbye to my family, but I was not ready to say it. ”
Mr. Picker was visited every day by his partner, two -year -old boy and their newborn baby, and it was determined to make them better.
“I was really hard at that time, but the only way I was happy was to get home. I was determined to go out and walk again,” he said.
The third round of IVIG and a plasma blood transfusion allow Mr. Pickering to improve the Linden Lodge rehabilitation unit in Nottingham before Christmas. There he had speech and language therapy and learned how to walk again.
“I knew my body was not ready for it, but you just have to do it,” he said, “I knew my body was not ready for it.”
Finally, in February 2024, Mr Picker had learned to walk again, and now a year after coming home, he is experiencing a almost normal life, including returning to the car and the tractor in his work as a mechanics.
Although he still can’t feel the toes, Mr Picker said he was grateful for the treatment he received.
However, the small danger of recurrence is still hanging on him.
“If I wake up at midnight with a pin and needle, that’s the same, I am awake all night because I think it’s happening again,” he explained.
After his recovery, Mr Picker has also become a sick ambassador to the National Rehabilitation Center (NRC), a completely new 70 -bed rehabilitation center.
In the role of his voluntary ambassador, Mr Pickering supports other patients who have a similar rehabilitation.
He spoke about his role in the center: “I just wanted to give it back. When I was doing it, I wanted someone to talk to him with a positive result.”
