A young woman from Leeds whose rare illness has left her in ¡®agonising and debilitating pain and makes her vomit up to 30 times a day is fundraising for life-changing surgery.
This woman named?Emily Webster said her whole life started ¡®crashing down¡¯ when she began to feel violently ill in 2016 and was forced to take nine months off work.
The 27-year-said that doctors initially told her she had IBS, a common condition which causes indigestion, but it turned out to be a rare incurable condition called Gastroparesis.?
Doctors say that Emily has such a condition in which the stomach starts paralyzing. You¡¯ve probably never heard this before. According to doctors, this is called partial paralysis. The stomach of the patient suffering from this is not empty like the common people.?
This disease occurs in only 6 per cent of the people in the whole of Britain. Emily says that in the last 5 years, her whole life has changed. They are isolated from others.?
The 27-year-old says the last few years of her life have "just blurred" but hopes she can start to get back to normal after being told she would be a good candidate for a gastric pacemaker. This device would regulate her stomach and improve her life dramatically ¨C but it¡¯s not offered by the NHS and costs a staggering ?9,500.
She said the surgery, which has been scheduled for November 11, would be the "best Christmas present I could ever get".? She told Daily Star,?"The past five years have been so difficult and lonely, but the worst part has been missing every single occasion of every year.?"I missed four Christmases, I missed my best friend¡¯s wedding, my best friend having a baby. The surgery would make my life better, and it would improve the quality of my life."
She saw her weight plummet, and at one stage tipped the scales at just five stone ¨C the average weight of a 10-year-old girl.
Let's hope Emily gets her life back.? ?