Guillain–Barré syndrome

And he goes, hello, who is this? It's me, I'm already falling, so we gotta go down the stairs.

What? She had Guillain-Barre's disease for like a year.

It was crazy.

What type of disease is that? It like paralyzes your body in ways sometimes worse than others.

Okay, so it might kill part of the organ or the system.

Guillain-Barré, for example, is exactly that.

You're going to kill the nerves, and therefore you're going to become disabled.

You won't be able to walk anymore, okay? So that happens depending on where that happens.

It makes me really sad.

But similarly, he tragically lost his partner in 2023 and made this really sad album called Javelin about it and also came out as having a rare autoimmune disorder called Guillain-Barré syndrome.

Kimya Dawson of the Moldy Peaches has similarly been adopted by very young, tender queers in part due to her openness about chronic illness, physical disability, autism, in her words, being fat and postmenopausal queerness.

Randomly, she's addicted to talking about poop, and she has positioned herself as kind of like a grandfather figure to a lot of young queer children today.

For some people, it can cause severe breathing issues.

The thing that you should note, though, is that it is linked to a rare neurological condition called acute flaccid myelitis, where there's actually an immune response that causes something similar to what we call a Guillain-Barre type of illness where people become paralyzed, basically.

Fortunately, it is very rare, but it can happen.

So the typical symptoms would be much like the symptoms that we're going to talk about today when we talk about RSV and influenza and COVID is runny nose, cough, fever body aches sore throat however it can become more severe with wheezing especially in people who already have lung problems like asthma shortness of breath and even go to respiratory failure and again as i mentioned the neurological issues with with limb weakness loss of muscle tone and things of that now how this spreads is through respiratory secretions like saliva, mucus, or sputum when an infected person coughs or sneezes and you have these contaminated surfaces.