This book tells my own personal story about Guillain-Barre'.
   The following paragraphs are excerpts from the opening page.

        
  Most of us have nightmares from time to time.  Some involve a bad
  experience from our childhood or perhaps the recollection of a book
  we've read or movie we've seen.  For someone like myself who spent
  the first 52 years of his life as an independent spirit, doing what he 
  wanted when he wanted most of the time, my worst nightmare would
  be losing that independence.

  I was raised in a Christian home, went to church every week, and even attended sixteen 
  years of parochial school.  So I certainly knew about God, although I'm not sure I ever
  truly knew God.  At least not like I would come to know Him through the experience I'm
  about to relate.

  So imagine my devastation when on May 21, 1999 I was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre’
  Syndrome.  I'll tell you more about the illness itself later.  It is a very debilitating attack on
  the peripheral nervous system.  It can strike without warning and leave its victim totally 
  incapacitated.  The whole ordeal for me actually began on Thursday, May 20, 1999, and
  this is that story.