I have more questions than answers.
1 Tell us in detail about the initial symptoms
and their timing. What happened when? History?
2 When was she moved from medical to rehab? Had
she been on IV steroids initially? Did they
continue? How else did her environment change?
3 What were her risk factors for a stroke or a
heart attack?
4 Was this a well equiped hospital or a small one?
5 Where in Australia is she?
6 There are tests to rule out GBS. Were they done?
The proclamation that she "has to get used to not
being able to walk again" is probably nonsense.
This group can document that recovery from a non-
traumatic spinal insult can occur over a period of
years. Several in this group went from paralysis
to walking, even running. [And several indeed did
not recover.] Unless the doctor knows something
bad that you haven't mentioned, his proclamation
is unfounded and unwise.
The most important factors in recovery are:
Attitude and hard work
God's help
Attitude and hard work
Support of others
Attitude and hard work
Luck
> spinal stroke or GBS ..."not that it really matters"
More nonsense. Get a new doctor.
If it is GBS, she may recover completely without him.
http://www.mayohealth.org/mayo/9708/htm/guillain.htm
If it is a spinal stroke, she should be on a stroke
avoidance regimen --- low salt, etc. The next attack
could be in her brain or heart. Not nice.
Tell us about her current condition.
Alton, 64, who had an ischemia in a spinal branch