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NORTHMORELAND TWP. - Merry McKeon is able to lead now. Just three months ago, Ms. McKeon couldn’t whisper without a respirator because of a potentially life-threatening syndrome that causes paralysis. As Ms. McKeon recovers from Guillain-Barre Syndrome, she remains confident and grateful, even though she may contemporary with muscle lassitude for the relaxation of her life.

"I understand the inconsequential things I can do," Ms. McKeon said. "I’m present to dense down a illiberal too. I’m not accepted to attract animation so fast." Ms. McKeon, who’s in her prehistoric 50s, said doctors do not identify how she acquired the syndrome, but said it may have been triggered by a virus.

The body’s unaffected set attacks participation of the peripheral nervous system, according to the National Institutes of Health. The make ready afflicts about one mortal in every 100,000. Before her illness, Ms. McKeon taught at Tunkhannock Area and ran Slumber Valley Campground in Meshoppen Twp. In November, Ms. McKeon evenly became paralyzed as her body succumbed to the illness.

After spending more than five weeks in an intensified woe part at Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Ms. McKeon was transferred to Kindred Hospital Wyoming Valley. "I still had my tracheotomy tube when I was transferred," Ms. McKeon said. "After I arrived at Kindred, persons were still feeding me." Ms. McKeon could not hold anything.

She also needed relief to walk, rack and sit. Through therapy, Ms. McKeon overcame the fleshly challenges and in due course was able to barrow for 45 seconds with a token support. "That was a milestone," Ms. McKeon said.

The 45 seconds were increased to minutes of standing. "Then my fiddle with change came back," Ms. McKeon said. "It seemed be fond of my body started waking up." Ms. McKeon was discharged from the sickbay stay month.

She has been staying at a friend’s shelter in Northmoreland Twp. She can shanks' mare using a walker or cane, and can wash up dishes, alter tea and do corporal treatment exercises, including squeezing putty.

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