Thanks for the info,Kitt, I very rarely get to hear from anyone who has had G.B.s, sorry your friend's life changed so much, its hard to accept for awhile, how it happens thru no fault of our own, just one of lifes many challenges.I could only move me eyes also, the rest just shut down.I either got it from a cold, or from eating chicken that had bacteria in it, likely the chicken, because they say if it was the chicken, then a person gets it very bad, and is paralysed for longer, with alot more problems, and are left with more remnents of the illness.No one really knows for sure, but it is a very scary thing to have to go thru.Does your friend come on here to talk? I would love to hear their story.