“This case for us was like that light of hope,” said the doctor for a Florida Latino who faced the worst after contracting Covid-19 — and the wife who wouldn't give up on him.
Although the majority recover, those who suffer complete paralysis, like Rodríguez, are less likely to survive.
Thus began the family's odyssey with a disease they knew nothing about. Guillain-Barré syndrome is particularly dangerous because it affects the entire body. Immobility can trigger, for example, clots in the legs that travel to the heart or the lungs, so any complication can be fatal. “When he put him on the camera I almost died — he was very, very ill," Urueña said. The nurse encouraged her to come running to the hospital and seek permission to see him.
Rodríguez had been at the point of respiratory failure, said Dr. José Barros, an internal medicine specialist who treated him at Kendall Regional Medical Center.
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