A First Step: Understanding Guillain-Barre Syndrome
 by Brian S. Langton

Part one of A First Step - Understanding Guillain-Barré Syndrome is a true, blow-by-blow account of the Author's encounter, as a healthy Canadian businessman, with a rare and devastating disease, Guillain-Barré Syndrome (G.B.S. for short). It describes his seven-month long struggle for life in 'Intensive Care' after receiving a grim prognosis, and his subsequent dogged determination to overcome the effects of that disease.

The second part is devoted to short stories based on dreams and hallucinations experienced whilst he was in 'Intensive Care', which in themselves reveal something of what a patient was going through. They also serve to illustrate the narrow boundary between reality and the dream world, and which whilst making for entertaining reading, could possibly be the subject of further study.

No Time for Tears: Transforming Tragedy into Triumph
 by Dorris R. Wilcox 

Combining aggressive self-education, massive doses of positive thinking, a barrage of nutritional supplements and unshakable faith in Gods healing power, Dorris Wilcox achieved against the odds 95% recovery from Guillain Barr Syndrome, a potentially lethal neurological disorder. She gives sufferers from all debilitating afflictions the tools to acquire and maintain the positive mindset they need to triumph over their own adversity. Also included is an extremely helpful, comprehensive appendix of sources for additional information on Guillain Barr Syndrome.

Solomon's Porch: The Story of Ben and Rose
 by Jane Riley

Guillain-Barre' syndrome is more than a disease: it is a disaster. SOLOMON'S PORCH, THE STORY OF BEN AND ROSE, is the intimate fictional account of one family's struggle with an ailment that left Ben Windham paralysed and his relationships with people changed.

Bed Number Ten
 by Sue Baier, Mary Zimmeth Schomaker

A patient's personal view of long term care.  Seen through the eyes of a patient totally paralysed with Guillain-Barré syndrome, this moving book takes you through the psychological and physical pain of an eleven month hospital stay. BED NUMBER TEN reads like a compelling novel, but is entirely factual.  You will meet:  The ICU staff who learned to communicate with the paralysed woman - and those who did not bother.  The physicians whose visits left her baffled about her own case.  The staff and physicians who spoke to her and others who did not recognize her presence.  The nurse who tucked Sue tightly under the covers, unaware that she was soaking with perspiration.  The nurse who took the time to feed her drop by drop, as she slowly learned how to swallow again.  The physical therapist who could read her eyes and spurred her on to move again as if the battle were his own.  In these pages, which reveal the caring, the heroism, and the insensitivity sometimes found in the health care fields, you may even meet people you know.
 

Masks
 by Gloria Hatrick

Summer vacation ends with a tragic turn for the Chisholm family when narrator Pete's older brother, Will, is suddenly and completely paralysed with Guillain-Barr‚ Syndrome. Both brothers get the runaround: The medical staff talks past them, their parents have low-voiced conversations and try too hard to act normally, and no one will discuss Wills condition in any but general, falsely cheerful, terms. Pete stays loyally at Wills bedside, sure that his brother is aware, and desperate to find... t