1 out of 100,000 people are affected by GBS, those odds are unimaginable. Those odd are comparable to winning the lottery, why couldn’t our family have gotten that instead? The past week has been really tough for the family because our Tay is in a fragile state. From having a having a great time at the beach, then having some back pain, and then being told he has GBS. Tita Pya has been sending us daily updates since she arrived Baguio. Every morning when I wake up I check email to find out about Tay’s progress; it seems that he just kept on getting worse from back pain to now at a critical state. Today, I woke up and got the fifth update and she said he is still critical but stable.

I’ve been reading about GBS, and been reading the NINDS website on GBS over and over. From the updates I’ve been receiving his condition is as spelled out on the fact sheet. It’s like the doctors are reading off a rap sheet on GBS about Tay. I wonder, do all GBS patients show these symptoms as systematically as it is described? Or are the doctors really just reading off a rap sheet? I hope not, I think not. I have great faith in the doctors in the Philippines, after all our most loved neurologist saved Mama’s life from two aneurisms. As I gather, I think he’s one of the doctors looking over Tay right now. Tita Pya said that the super antibiotics the doctors gave Tay a couple days ago seem to be helping him. According to the NINDS, GBS patients will peak in their condition then start to stabilize and move forward to recovery. Of course with Tay’s age, we are praying for all the strength he can harness because recovery takes from days, weeks, months, or even years. There is no known cure, there’s just recovery.

I want to thank everyone for your kind email and comments. I’ve been receiving so many kind words, thank you so much. I just want you to know that I really appreciate it. And I truly appreciate your prayers for Tay, he needs all the blessing he can get. I also hope that you understand why I am short in my responses or don’t respond at all. Also, some of you might wonder why I’m writing all this in a blog for the whole world to see. Personal family business is not everyone’s business. Well for me it’s my way of getting things out, a way for me to release and calm down. If I just keep it to myself and hold it in I’d explode, at least this way I get it out and controlled because I know I have to be careful of what I say and think. If I hold it in my mind races, and for those truly close to me you know how that goes.