A dad was left paralysed after consuming a dodgy curry which gave him food poisoning and led to an auto-immune disorder. David Miller was left unable to use his limbs after he ordered his favourite fast food dinner and contracted severe food poisoning from a chicken bhuna.
He initially had a painful stomach bug which lasted around two months before tingling sensations in his hands and feet developed two months later and turned into near-full paralysis. The 43-year-old required a wheelchair to get around and spent two and a half months in hospital, Birmingham Live reports.
He was eventually diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome which is a very serious and rare condition which affects the nerves and can be lethal. Speaking of his shock diagnosis, Mr Miller said: "It was pretty scary. Obviously we didn't go back to that restaurant again.
"It was a steep decline - I went from having tingling and pins and needles in my hands and feet to needing a wheelchair to get into hospital a week later. Some people die from this syndrome.
"It works its way from the extremities through your core and can stop your breathing. Imagine looking at your body and trying to make it move and it doesn't." He added: "I was worried about my breathing, I could tell I wasn't breathing strongly.
"I was never fully paralysed, I still had some movement in my hips but not enough to even roll over in bed with. It does make you think about food and the knock-on effect.
"It was a year of my life that it affected. My eating habits haven't really changed, but it does make you think."
"It makes you think a little bit more about life and focus on the now. I've been doing that more recently. I've taken more time off work and being ill was definitely a contributing factor in that.
"With the marathon I'm raising money for the John Muir Trust. I've been worrying about the future more recently and the money raised will go to protecting our forests."
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