Joe Beernink
Author of NOWHERE WILD, NOWHERE HOME
Today marks the 6th anniversary of my battle with Guillain-Barre. The good news, this will be a very short update: Everything is fine. The war has been over for a few...
Category: Guillain-Barre
Today is the fourth anniversary of the day I had my first symptoms of Guillain-Barre Syndrome. It now seems like a very long time ago. A lot has happened. For many...
Category: Guillain-Barre Tags: GBS
Today was the First Annual Seattle GBS-CIDP Walk and Roll at Magnuson Park. It’s been over three years since I first came down with GBS. Walking a mile back then would...
Category: Guillain-Barre Tags: GBS/CIDP Foundation
As a Guillain-Barre survivor, I like to help out those who have just found out that they have GBS, or are struggling to recover from it. I was encouraged by so...
Category: Guillain-Barre Tags: Guillain-Barre Seattle Walk and Roll
Just over three years ago, I wrote a blog entry chronicling my first three days with Guillain Barré Syndrome. In it, I wrote that recovery times vary from 3 weeks to...
Category: Guillain-Barre Tags: Guillain-Barre Syndrome
So I didn’t blog much in 2014…just 9 entries by my count. Nine. I used to do that in two weeks. So I don’t blame you if you’ve given up hope...
Category: Announcements, Family, Guillain-Barre, Music, Technology, Videos Tags: Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Microsoft Band
It’s been a couple of months since we’ve had time to chat. I assure you that this doesn’t mean I don’t love y’all. It’s just that life has been really busy....
Category: Family, Guillain-Barre Tags: Baseball, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Writing
Yesterday marked the two year anniversary of my first moments with Guillian-Barre Syndrome—an odd tingling in my fingers and my lips that, within the next 24 hours, would spread throughout my...
Category: Guillain-Barre Tags: GBS
Well, I had high hopes for December, but I caught some kind of bug in the middle of the month that knocked me down for about five days. Usually colds and...
Category: Guillain-Barre Tags: Guillain-Barre Syndrome
While 2012 was a year dominated by my recovery from Guillain-Barre Syndrome, 2013 was more of a transition year. It was the year I learned how to live with GBS and...
Category: Guillain-Barre, Writing Updates Tags: 2013
Joe Beernink
Joe Beernink 