Rare illness turns teenage girl into real life sleeping beauty.

It’s true, there is such thing as sleeping beauty. That is proved by Louisa Ball, a 15-year-old British girl who suffers from Klein-Leven Syndrome, a rare complex neurological disorder that causes patients to fall asleep for days on end. In Louisa’s case, she can sleep for 2 weeks, and have no recollection of what happened during that time.

Her parents have to force feed here, and shake her uncontrollable before she wakes up so they can make her go to the restroom.

Klein-Leven Syndrome is rare and can affect mostly teenagers but has shown to pass 8-12 years later.

(Source: Google)

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  • Clyde E. McLerran, Jr. on Jun 7, 2011

    Hi, my name is Clyde McLerran, I’m a 47 year old man, I live in the USA; Williamston, North Carolina, aprox. 85 miles from the North Carolina Coast Line, the Outer Banks, to be exact.. About 4 &1/2 Years Ago, I was also Diagnost by a good Sleep Speacialist near us here with K.L.S., but reading your short story about your self, your experience with K.L.S. is much more severe than mine, my longest episoilds of what I call “Sleeping Spells”, has only lasted for almost 5 Days straight, you say your lastes for 2 weeks at a time!!! WOW!! All I know it has about wrecked my life!! Since I am a grown Man, I woun’t offer you my Cell Phone number: but I will offer you my Wife’s Cell Number, her name is Shirley, she a nice person to talk to; her phone is 252-799- 6674, I’m sure my wife could answer any questions you’d have about me, feel free to call her if you’d like, your welcome to. Have one your parents be with when you call, I don’t want you or anyone else to feel like I’m up to something wrong! My wife and I would be happy to hear from you and your family. Thanks, Sincerely, Clyde E. McLerran, Jr.

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