EMG Reveals Total Demyelination; Six Months in Hospital, Never Walks Again¶
Day 2 · 2:44:45 · Shawn Buckley · Jasmeet Grewal · Dean Allison · Michael Oesch
- ⚡ A cancelled-appointment EMG on 29 April 2022 showed severe whole-body demyelination and immediate hospitalization.
- 🦵 After six months he never regained lower-limb nerve function and lives with constant burning pain and hand tremors.
- 🍽️ A year later intestinal failure forced 12-hour daily TPN and gastro-jejunal tube feeds; he still vomits bile every few hours.
Diagnostic turning point and the permanent multi-system disability that followed.
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Transcript¶
Shawn Buckley · 2:44:45
You, you end up getting a call on April 29th, that's correct, 2022, that somebody had cancelled the appointment.
Jasmeet Grewal · 2:44:51
Yeah.
Shawn Buckley · 2:44:52
So you rush in and, and get this appointment that nobody else is in a hurry for. Um, and you end up getting hospitalized right away.
Dean Allison · 2:44:59
Immediately.
Jasmeet Grewal · 2:45:00
Immediately.
Shawn Buckley · 2:45:00
So they do the test and they hospitalize you. You're in the hospital for 6 months.
Jasmeet Grewal · 2:45:03
That's right.
Shawn Buckley · 2:45:04
So, so what happened there?
Jasmeet Grewal · 2:45:07
So right after they did the test, they did my whole lower body, my upper body as well. They noticed that there was severe demyelination from my entire body. So there wasn't any kind of reaction from my from my neurons feed back into their system. And as soon as we went back down to emergency, we waited in emergency. He wanted to do something called the lumbar puncture. And what the lumbar puncture does is where you kind of bend over on your side, you curl up into a little bit of a ball, and they take out the cerebral spinal fluid from my, from my lumbar. Um, when they tried to dilute that and add—.
Shawn Buckley · 2:45:37
I'm just gonna— we're gonna skip some of the detail.
Dean Allison · 2:45:39
Okay.
Shawn Buckley · 2:45:40
Um, because We don't have the time for that, but basically you, you've never, you've never walked again.
Jasmeet Grewal · 2:45:49
Uh, we always had attempts in the hospital, but nothing come to be known.
Shawn Buckley · 2:45:53
And you've lost your nerve function in your lower limbs?
Michael Oesch · 2:45:56
That's right.
Shawn Buckley · 2:45:57
Um, you have burning nerve pain throughout your entire body, and that's even right now as you're speaking?
Jasmeet Grewal · 2:46:02
I still have this tremors as well in my hands as well.
Shawn Buckley · 2:46:04
So you're not— this is, this is just something you can't control?
Jasmeet Grewal · 2:46:08
No, not at all.
Shawn Buckley · 2:46:09
So, and it's also very painful all the time. Um, your intestines don't work. You're unable to feed. So even though I'm talking, I'm, I'm hoping the camera, they put it on you. You have 2 bags there and you have 2 pumps for, for 12 hours a day. Those pumps have to run. Can you tell us what they are and, and why you need to have them for 12 hours a day?
Jasmeet Grewal · 2:46:36
Yeah, so initially you'll see the first pump on my right that has a little bag attached to it. That's going directly into my stomach, which is called a gastrojejunal tube, which bypasses my stomach. So it can still kind of— I can still use my stomach and that type of way, my whole gastrointestinal system to get whatever nutrients and proteins from there. The second bag you have, you see behind there is a black bag that's called TPN. It's called total parenteral nutrition. That one goes directly into my chest, into a larger vein, so I can get also the additional nutrition, nutrition like carbohydrates, proteins, fats, and all the vitamins and minerals to go into my system. These symptoms weren't right away. It happened about a year and a half after I got— a year after I got discharged from the hospital after the 6-month stint. And with the constant treatments that I was going through, this was an apparent side effect, an unfortunate side effect of that fact. So right now I cannot— if I was to eat something orally or try to take something orally, I would immediately come up and it would stay in my stomach.
Jasmeet Grewal · 2:47:39
As much as I would like to have some water right now because it is quite parched, I would not be able to because if I was to try to drink the water, I would immediately— it would immediately come back up and I would have to vomit it out.
Jasmeet Grewal · 2:47:51
Right.
Shawn Buckley · 2:47:51
So, so you rely— this is your, your water, this is your food, is two tubes, one dripping into your stomach and one dripping into a vein.
Dean Allison · 2:48:00
That's correct.
Shawn Buckley · 2:48:00
That's how you're fed.
Jasmeet Grewal · 2:48:01
Yeah.
Shawn Buckley · 2:48:02
And these pumps have to run for 12 hours a day.
Jasmeet Grewal · 2:48:05
They run constantly, 12 hours a day. And even without me having to drink or eat normally, I'm still vomiting every few hours, just whatever, whatever's in my stomach.
Shawn Buckley · 2:48:13
It could be bile, it could be whatever it is. Um, what's been the most difficult part of this?
Jasmeet Grewal · 2:48:23
All it's been quite bewildering overall. Um, the confusion to— the confusion to navigate every day, uh, and how to navigate every day, because I know that every night I'm get— after I disconnect everything, I can get whatever rest I can get. I have to start both of these machines immediately in the morning, or else I'm not going to get my caloric— necessary caloric intake for that day, and that's going to cause even more side effects that I don't want to bother trying to feel. So the difficulty is the, just the navigation of how I'm going to kind of attack each day.
Shawn Buckley · 2:48:58
Uh, it's—.
Jasmeet Grewal · 2:48:59
I have the great support of my family, my close friends, my partner as well, and I, and I'm extremely appreciative for that. But trying to navigate it in my own head and seeing where I could have been or what could have been potentially and what it has been, uh, even just seeing the photos and the videos now is been confounding, but, uh, it, it is what my— is what— it's where we have— it's my place is here, where is where I'm supposed to be for whatever reason. And the opportunity is here to speak about is what I, what I feel like I had to do. And it's, it's just a matter of what— where can we go next? And I'm going to do whatever I can to take that next step.
Shawn Buckley · 2:49:42
Thank you.
Dean Allison · 2:49:46
And, uh, I want to thank you for being here. Thank you very much. We're gonna— I'm gonna turn it over to my, my colleague, uh, Dean Hall.