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Hi, I’ve had a bit of an influx in followers recently after #disabledandsexy so I thought I’d reintroduce myself - HI I’m Lucy, I’m 24 from Lincolnshire & I have a Criminology degree which i almost didn’t get cos during my 3rd year of uni I became ill with a 
brain disease
brain disease
My behaviour became completely wild & unexplainable, going from being horrendously depressed to manic and frantic and one morning my housemate found me rocking backwards & forwards screaming her name robotically...long story short I was taken to hospital...
I was misdiagnosed as having had a mental breakdown, so I was put in a psychiatric ward for 3 months and treated for a fictional mental illness, meaning the brain disease went completely untreated... so I started to die
die
On my 21st bday, doctors told my parents... she’s gonna die and we don’t know why so as a last ditch effort we can give her electro shock therapy. At this point I was catatonic, my body had shut down, I was like a toddler personality wise ...
die and we don’t know why so as a last ditch effort we can give her electro shock therapy. At this point I was catatonic, my body had shut down, I was like a toddler personality wise ...
The ECT by some MIRACLE triggered seizures which SOMEHOW worked towards resetting my brain. I was put back on a ward bed and left alone, I had an almighty seizure & fell out of the bed and on to an open radiator pipe (I was catatonic still so couldn’t feel my body) so I just
laid on the pipe burning away very long story short, the pipe burnt through my sciatic nerve and left me permanently paralysed in my left leg. But when I say long story I’m talking 2/3 years long of trying to work out wtf happened.
SO, 21 I was suddenly disabled and also now had an acquired brain injury. I had to relearn absolutely everything from scratch, walking, talking, reading, writing, typing, texting, doing makeup, socialising, BEING etc. But hey yeah I went back to uni n graduated and here I am
24, living on my own, self employed and signed as a disabled model. IT WAS AN unbelievable fate and trust me I have been to the depths of hell and back from the trauma/ grief etc. But yes. here i am
here i am
If anyone wants the full and lengthy ins and outs I’ll link my blog detailing it all here! - …https://lucyintheskywithencephalitis.wordpress.com/2020/02/05/the-story-of-how-i-went-from-being-a-healthy-20-year-old-at-university-to-being-incorrectly-locked-in-a-mental-ward-for-3-months-and-coming-out-disabled/
Oh yes! Should also mention that the disease I had is called Anti NDMA Receptor Autoimmune Encephalitis, which is inflammation caused by antibodies produced by the bodies own immune system attacking the brain. You can learn more about the disease here : https://www.encephalitis.info/Pages/Category/autoimmune-encephalitis
