After his car accident in December 2020, Henri Sannier catches a virus who goesprevent walkingaffecting his fingers and his legs. It will pass several months in a wheelchair. Accustomed to a sporting life, the journalist of all sports is forced to face this ordeal. Bedridden for months, the journalist ends up walk again after dreaming about it.
“Last June, during the night, I got up to get some medicine. And I walked! In fact, I think I realized that I could walk again […] I was the happiest, as if I had won the Tour de France! “.
He decided to testify during this edition of the Telethon, to talk about his autoimmune disease which paralyzed him for months.
The doctors took a long time to understand what ailment the journalist was suffering from. It’s about a neuropathy which is a neurological disorder, which in this case affects the journalist’s hands and legs, but not the brain.
“I first went to the University Hospital of Amiens where I was treated for Guillain-Barré syndrome. But the doctors who thought it was not this syndrome directed me to the hospital of the Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris. There, I received another treatment: plasmapheresis,” he says.
The principle of plasmapheresis is of filter the patient’s blood to renew the plasma, to ensure the proper functioning of the body. The journalist travels to Paris every six weeks to receive his treatment.
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