Ten minutes after Jessica Ennis went into the bath she discovered she couldn't move her legs and has been confined to a hospital bed after being diagnosed with a rare condition.
Jessica Ennis said she felt completely helpless after suffering a sudden life-changing diagnosis. Now she has opened up on the morning that changed her life as she prepared to take her children to nursery.
"At 10 past seven I got in the bath and by 20 past I was paralysed from the waist down. I couldn’t move my legs at all. It was terrifying. I called my mum who came around and dragged me out the bath before an ambulance got to us. That was the last time I saw my own home." Jessica said she is now suffering at least two seizures a day and cannot control her own limbs. Doctors, she said, have told her she could spend the rest of her life dependent on a wheelchair.
“Then all of a sudden last August I began to feel unwell with an unexplainable pain which was really debilitating. Then in the November overnight I’d gone blind in my left eye which the doctors diagnosed as optic neuritis. I began to adapt to life with that but then my skin also began almost burning in a horrific pain.
"The worst part is the hyper-sensitivity meaning I can't bear being touched and all I want to do is hug my husband and my children." According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes around four to 12 people in every 100,000 will get FND.
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