LONDON: A teenaged British girl, who missed her exams and even celebrating her birthday after nodding off in April, woke up last week.
Stacey Comerford, 15, from Telford in the West Midlands region, suffers from a rare neurological disorder which means she enters a sleeping state for months at a time, The Sun reported.
She is just one of 1,000 people worldwide to be suffering from Kleine Levin Syndrome also known as Sleeping Beauty Syndrome.
The last - her longest at two months - meant she missed nine exams after being predicted straight As.
Stacey, who hopes to return to school part time, said she used to be taunted over the condition.
She said: "I've missed nine exams and my birthday. It's easier now people know what it is. It's easier to explain to them. Before, people didn't believe me. That was the hardest thing."
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It is a strange thing she has to find solution very quikly.
I think there is presently no cure for this syndrome because enough research has not been done and it's a rare disease. I call for more research to be done on this to bring out a cure coz 1000 pple in d world also deserve to live productive n fruitful lives.
Wow that's serious!....hope she will soon get over that syndrom K.K kind of things.....actually that is not her fault, the name of the sympton sound romatic and sexy "sleeping beauty" the most painful things is for someone to missed this two days in life, Exams and birthday is not fun at-al.....babe gal no need of sleeping piles for you, wish quik recovering angel. Samuel Agida from Nigeria
I wonder how their body gets enough nutrition or goes to the bathroom during a two month sleep (Google Time)
In Pakistan, she would have probably woken up 6 feet under the ground.
@Huma: wow. No sense of humor?
@eeman, usman, and to a lesser extent ...asim zeeshan... hope u get it.... would prob be a nice change for the women in your life... chauvanists!
@Eeman: LOL
But its terrifying to know that you sleep and you get hospitalized for an indefinite period of time just because you have this syndrome. Good for her that doctors over there don't go on strike
@ Eeman Haha, nice one
An average Pakistani woman can beat her.