This is just plain weird! I hope she grows out of it because this is a crappy way to live life. Louisa Ball does not even know about her prolonged sleeps, which began in 2008 as she recovered from flu, were initially thought to be hormonal until she was diagnosed with Kleine-Levin Syndrome last year.
People who develop the condition, also known as Sleeping Beauty Disease, are prone to falling into extended periods of deep sleep that can stretch to weeks.
Miss Ball’s mother Lottie, 45, told a national newspaper: “She was exhausted and didn’t seem to be getting any better. She started to fall asleep at school and was rambling about things that didn’t make sense – just like she was talking in her sleep.
“It really scared us, we didn’t know what to do. It just didn’t seem like Louisa was the daughter we used to know – she was like a different person.”
Doctors at Worthing General Hospital were baffled by her symptoms, and suggested the problem could be to do with hormones.
Miss Ball’s sleeping episodes began to stretch to ten days at a time, during which time her parents would wake her once a day to feed her and take her to the bathroom, before she succumbed to sleep again. Wow, just amazing.
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4 Doc // Oct 1, 2010 at 9:30 pm
Thats weird. Wonder if time passes quickly for her. She wakes up once a day and has to sleep the rest. She may only be awake and conscious a few hours of the week.
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7 FunnyWeird Girl // Oct 11, 2010 at 3:04 pm
That is crazy. That really really sucks.s I am one of those always tired people but at least I can wake up for a portion of the day.
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10 SwanDee // Mar 25, 2011 at 3:15 am
This is part of a mystery of life. I wonder what she experienced her mind when she falls asleep.
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