Frank Davis not doing well healthwise

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Dr. Shaibani diagnosed Frank with a rare illness called CIDP, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy. It is an autoimmune disease that can happen at any age. For some unknown reason, Frank's immune system sees his nerves and the insulation around them as foreign invaders, like germs that make you sick. So it attacks and destroys them. Frank's brain is fine, but its signals to the nerves that move his muscles are interrupted.

"No one knows why the immune system decides to go against it's own tissue. Sometimes an immune reaction is triggered by a virus. Most of the times we do not identify a specific trigger factor because it can be anything from stress, to food, to exposure to environmental agents," explained Dr. Shaibani.

CIDP is rare, so can often be misdiagnosed. Had it been diagnosed earlier, chances of recovery would have been much better. Instead, Frank went from a cane one week, to a walker the next, a wheelchair and then now to a hospital bed in his home, all in the past month.

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