For a Florida firefighter, what started out as a numb toe escalated into full-body paralysis. A rare, debilitating illness looked set to end his career, but he battled hard, and finally came out the other side triumphant.
Driver Engineer Steven Connors—who returned to work at Lakeland Fire Department on Oct. 27—had to relearn how to eat, talk, and walk after a year of battling debilitating Guillain-Barré syndrome, a rare disorder in which the body’s immune system attacks the nerves, eventually paralyzing the entire body.
