Vanessa Abraham M.S. CCC-SLP
Vanessa Abraham, Zebras Underground, Medical Trauma SupportVanessa Abraham, SLP substack is about a Mother, Speech Pathologist and ICU survivor of Guillain-Barré Syndrome — who lost her ability to communicate and discusses the overlooked reality of Post-Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS).
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The Loneliest Kind of Rare
I made a Facebook page for my disease.
Not for Guillain-Barré Syndrome — which has support groups, foundations, and thousands of survivors sharing their stories online.
I made a page for my variant. The Pharyngeal-Cervical-Brachial varian...
They Couldn't Hold It. So I Found People Who Could.
No one told me I had PICS when I left the ICU.
I went home with discharge papers, a follow-up appointment, and a nervous system that had been through a war. I had survived the Pharyngeal-Cervical-Brachial variant of Guillain-Barré Syndrome...
What Military Families Know That ICU Families Don't
There’s a moment that happens in almost every ICU survivor’s recovery. It’s not in the hospital. It’s not at discharge. It’s later — weeks, maybe months after coming home — when you try to tell someone what happened to you.
You wa...
No Car Accident. No Stroke. Still a Brain Injury.
There’s a question I get more than almost any other.
“But GBS isn’t a brain injury, right?”
And every time I hear it, I feel something catch in my chest. Not anger. Something closer to grief — for every patient who was sent home wi...
I Know They Saved Me. It Still Felt Like a Violation.
This post touches on bodily autonomy, loss of control, and the emotional weight of medical trauma. Please be gentle with yourself as you read. You are safe here.
I need to say something that took me a long time to find words for. So...
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Mother, Speech Pathologist, Neubie practitioner, author of Speechless, and PICS advocate. I share clinical insight and lived experience to help survivors heal from medical trauma and neurological illness with evidence-informed, compassionate care.
Zebras Underground is where sass meets science for the EDS, POTS, MCAS trio of chaos. A no-fluff dispatch with wit, research, and lived experience for chronically complex humans - digging into body, mind, and heart where rare meets real.
I'm a social worker, peer specialist and founder of Medical Trauma Support. I write about medical trauma, the nervous system, somatic healing, community, and creating more compassionate healthcare for both patients and providers.
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