Sufjan Stevens, the Oscar-nominated indie singer-songwriter, has been hospitalized with Guillain-Barré syndrome and is relearning to walk after the neurological disorder left him with what he says …
Stevens, who also posted a photo of himself in the hospital, continued, “My brother drove me to the ER and after a series of tests—MRIs, EMGs, cat scans, X-rays, spinal taps , echo-cardiograms, etc.—the neurologists diagnosed me with an auto immune disorder called Guillian-Barre Syndrome. Luckily there’s treatment for this — they administer immuno-hemoglobin infusions for five days and pray that the disease doesn’t spread to the lungs, heart and brain. Very scary, but it worked.
Stevens writes that on Sept. 8, he was transferred to “acute rehab,” where he is now undergoing intensive physical and occupational therapy “to get my body back in shape and to learn to walk again.”
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