05/13/2019: ‘Jeans for Jen’ helps bank employee cover medical expenses
BELLEVILLE — A Bank of Belleville employee who went through an unexpected health crisis is using her experience to help others.
Jennifer Gross, a loan assistant at the bank, contracted a chronic form of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (gwee-YAIN bah-RAY) known as Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy that left her paralyzed from right below her eyes down to her feet. Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rare disorder that causes a person’s immune system to damage that person’s nerve cells, causing muscle weakness and sometimes paralysis. GBS is rare and is typically caused by an infection or occasionally immunizations.
