Up from the Abyss

I assure you, though, there is nothing trite about coming down with Guillain-Barr syndrome. For the person hit by it, it''s war and revolution wrapped in one: A catastrophe, an upheaval, a devastating blow.

But also an invaluable experience and a possibility for renewal.

I wouldn''t be what I am now, a man at peace with himself and the world, had I not come down with, and fought back from, this terr...