Acute flaccid paralysis

Put yourself in such a patient's position of total or near total paralysis with most of your senses blunted, unable to move, speak or even open your eyes due to a severely paralyzed motor function - you try relentlessly to free yourseld until you become so overwhelmed by exhaustion, fright and panic that your heart begins to give out. That's exactly what happened to Arlene Berry.

From this family observation it seems clear that Arlene Berry  displayed a  "flaccid paralysis (most cases are polio-like)  without   loss of consciousness," and a CSF profile consistent with viral infection,  a hallmark of catalepsy, or critical neuroleptic  cataleptic-like phenomenon induced by cross-sensitization to morphine.  In the alternative we have a   But that that's not even the half of it. She became the victim of a horrific chain of medical negligence that is nothing short of criminal. No autopsy was performed. A family request for a formal inquest was also denied by  Dr. Barry McLellan who was regional supervising coroner at that time.

The facts of the case, still under private investigation together with the medical record of Arlene Berry for May 23rd and 24th of 2000 are indistinguishable from  the West Nile Virus. Acute flaccid paralysis is a  polio-like syndrome with paralysis, to coma and brain changes like those of a stroke.

 Search: "flaccid paralysis".

Findings suggest that polio-like syndrome has left several victims struggling for their lives on a respirator, may be a direct manifestation of West Nile infection.

West Nile Virus: Symptoms

Scholarly articles for NEUROLEPTIC INDUCED CATALEPSY
	Serotonergic mechanisms in neuroleptic-induced catalepsy ... - by Wadenberg - 59 citations Cholinergic-and neuroleptic-induced catalepsy: ... - by Costall - 36 citations Neuroleptic-induced catalepsy as a model of Parkinson's ... - by Elliott - 24 citations

Similar anticonvulsant, but unique, behavioural effects of opioid ... 

Morphine (10 mg/kg, sc) produced excitation and hyperresponsiveness with intermittent cataleptic-like states.

"Submit that N-2 of the nurses notes clearly document "attempts to pull away to painful stimuliy" at 0400 hours, to rule out complete cessation of motor response at 0245 hours .  From that record it is clear that Dr. Jordan lied. I was present at that time and had asked Arlene two times (in the presence of her foster brother) if she could hear me to wiggle her toes and she did, not once, but twice. In my opinion, Arlene appeared to be more paralyzed than anything, which may suggest one of two things, either chemical restraint, or meningitis. Further, with meningitis, muscular power in the limbs is usually well preserved, muscular hypotonia occurs quite regularly, which may or may not explain  questionable "plantar responses". Arlene was able to wiggle her toes when I asked her to (not once, but twice), obviously she could still hear me at that time. It must have been a nightmare for her.

Babinski mimickers:

Pseudo Babinski sign
Inversion of plantar reflex
Withdrawal response

("Neuro" = nerves, "pathy" = abnormal; "peripheral" = nerves beyond the brain and spinal cord.)

Consider "virus associated peripheral neuropathy".

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