GArockcrawler

thank you for sharing this. I am a former speech pathologist who worked with connecting patients with locked in syndrome with assistive technology to communicate. My first patient was a gentleman who had been an attorney and who had had a bad brainstem stroke. He was fully dependent for years. One day one of the best nurses aides on the unit came and got me and said she thought he was responding to her. I did an assessment and agreed. I had done numerous assessments on him prior and he hadn’t responded. I always wondered if there was something I had missed but your story reminds me that neurological status can and does absolutely change over time. I am very glad to hear you are recovering well.

edit: Thanks for the awards, fellow redditors. I feel your love, but OP definitely could benefit from financial support if you are so inclined (i hope this doesnt break any rules, but the link is here: https://gofund.me/3c89fe43).

Thanks for this. What are the risks for vaccinating people with autoimmune conditions in this case? Do we even know? Because the vaccine works differently than say a flu vaccine, is there a theory about how someone with an autoimmune condition may respond? I get it: COVID is horrible, but for an autoimmune condition (Hashimoto’s) is the vaccine likely to cause unforeseen problems? What would we need to be ready to deal with in that scenario?

Popping in to say yes please to a response here, and adding on an additional question. My husband has Hashimoto’s syndrome that is controlled at the moment, but it is a balancing act and we are cautious to not expose him to situations that will cause flareups. The questions above regarding quality and thoroughness are important to us in this pursuit.

The additional question: given that the mechanism by which this vaccine works is different than traditional vaccines, does this potentially mean a greater or lower risk of triggering an autoimmune response flare? What is prevailing thought?

We fully recognize that COVID can have some nasty long term side effects on thyroid in addition to just being risky overall; where would a vaccine that potentially risks an autoimmune flare due to vaccination fall relative to overall risk of COVID? What do we need to be ready for?