Hello everyone, Im in this wheelchair because of COVID G.B.S

I'm reaching out for help — something I've never done before.In late 2020, I contracted COVID, which triggered Guillain-Barré syndrome — a rare but devastating autoimmune disorder that strikes roughly one in 700,000 people with COVID. While many see COVID as just a respiratory illness, its deadliest effect of the virus is neurological — the virus can cause the immune system to attack the body's own nerves, leading to full-body paralysis. Both COVID and the COVID vaccine can trigger Guillain-Barré syndrome.

This is a killer virus .

I clinically died, was placed in an induced coma, and spent a full year in the ICU with a trach and feeding tube.

I was completely quadriplegic and locked-in my own body for eight months, unable to move or speak.After three and a half years of rehabilitation, I Finally was able to regained use of my arms and upper body and speech, but I remain permanently paralyzed from the waist down and live in a wheelchair.

While I was in the hospital in a coma, my mother — my only living relative — was told to about my condition and was told to come visit me. Seeing me in that state caused her to suffer a massive fatal heart attack. I lost the only family I had..We were the only ones left for each other. I loved her and found out wile i was locked in my body not able to reack . It was a nightmare. My mother left me her house, sold it for $320,000, and while still in hospital, I tried to start a small business using my computer.

Knowing thats all i have to start a new life in a wheelchair . Trust me that a hard one to wrap your brain around.

My so called friend -slash worker on the outside world taking my packages of shoes and clothes and bringing it to a storage locker i rented.I was paying him of course . I did this all in my hospital bed he was m for me since im a singel guy no kids in sales . So i did not have anyone but this guy who, i did thinik i could totally trust . i lived with him for years even help him get in a union even help pay for him to sign up when he had no money.. was storing all the merchandise in a storage unit, but he went behind my back, sold everything, and pocketed the money.

The police refused to charge him, saying it was a civil matter. Thats the law in Canada and i could not afford a lawyer to sue, and since Canada has no punitive damages, there's little point in pursuing it. I lost it all.

When i finnally get discharded from the hospital July 5 2023 i went in Nov 1 2020 I am poor with nothing no family a empty apartment and oh yeah on ODSP Ontario disability the payment system pays people at teh and of the month so like July 29 I get a full check for that month in August . But since i was in the hospital in June i only received $150 to live of that month. That was a really dark month.

Last summer I was wrongfully evicted from the apartment I just moved into that i got from the city of Ottawa in Housing for disable. I did not send in paper work about my taxes they said even tho i did them They said i had to prove im on ODSP even tho ODSP pays my rent directly to the landlord every month. They raised my rent with out me knowing to $1500 a month wile ODSP. I had no where to go i did not have anyone to help me move what i had been able to by since getting my apartment .. So i lost everything but some clothes . I even got charged for them, to throw out my new stuff. Yupp..

So now im homeless in a WHEELCHAIR for the first time in my life at 49 No job No money no family holy let me tell you.. scary time it was .. I didnt get any help either from my city i was not a women or a refugee they come first when it comes to helping the homeless so they have no money for hotels or apt when it comes to males. Yes that means even if your blind with down syndrome they would not get you a hotel. YOur male I was facing freezing to death until a legal aid lawyer took pity on me that i met when she was helping me with case about my old apterment . She help co-sign for me to gett mycurrent apartment on December 1st

.I'm now 49, single with no kids, and completely alone. My old friends are busy with their families, and being a Trump supporter in a very left-leaning city has left me isolated.I'm on ODSP, receiving just $16,900 a year while my rent in Ottawa — one of the highest rent capitals in the world — is $1,800 a month. I've lost 80 pounds this past year because I can't afford to eat. When people tell me I look good and ask what my secret is, I joke that it's not from working out — it's because I can only afford one meal a day, sometimes skipping that too, especially at the end of the month. The grocery prices are through the roof.The only treatment that could help me regain strength and possibly walk again is physiotherapy, but ODSP only covers three visits per year. I need it daily. Any amount you can give would help me eat, stay housed, and continue fighting to recover.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Ryan Burt