Surviving Guillain-Barré Syndrome — a PEOPLE Writer's Own Story of Recovery from Paralysis
Photo: Martin Bentsen On May 20, 2018, my world turned upside down. That day, I was supposed to be packing for an upcoming assignment in Hawaii to cover a shoot for Discovery Channel’s Shark Week. Instead, I found myself lying on a bed in the emergency room of UCLA’s Medical Center in Santa Monica, California, barely able to walk or talk. It was my first time being a patient at a hospital, and I was shaking as I waited for a doctor to come in to give me some explanation as to why my body seemed to shut down out of the blue....