Hi, my name is juan carlos gonzalez. I
live in the usa, i’m a permanent
resident. I’m from ecuador, south
america and my family live there.
My youngest brother is 34 years old, he's
in ecuador and he was diagnosed with
multiple sclerosis aggressive and
uncommon. His medical history: about
one year ago he was paralyzed from his
waist down. The doctors in ecuador
treated this condition as a viral
infection to his spine. He was at the
hospital for one month and after a lot of
antibiotics and a lot of rehabilitation he
was walking again and apparently
everything was ok. Sometimes he had to
walk using a cane. Two weeks ago, on
sunday 11-05-06, he woke up and he was
feeling his left side numb and he
couldn’t walk. My family took him to
the hospital and by wednesday 11-08-06 he
was unconscious in intensive care.
The doctors have done a lot of blood
tests, mris, cephalorachidian fluid tests
and finally on thursday 11-23-06 he was
diagnosed with ms uncommon and aggressive,
but the doctors say there’s something
else more, like a bacteria, or a fungus or
something, they’re not sure yet .
They’ll be doing a biopsy of my
brother’s brain some time next week and
after that, doctors will know what’s
going on with him. My brother has been
unconscious ever since that wednesday
11-08-06. He has been given corticoids
and medicine since 11-08-06.
If anybody knows about any institute or
any foundation that treat cases of ms
could you please let me know if they could
help me or how to get in touch with them?
I need help to bring him here to the
states and help to get medical treatment
