Kirsty Keep, 23, is too weak to even open a door ever since she contracted lupus following a bug bite in her back garden when she was just 12-years-old.
Kirsty was left suffering from lupus, a condition where her immune system attacks healthy cells, tissue and organs, and possibly more illnesses that have been left diagnosed.
Kirsty said: ‘My bones feel like they’re being snapped and my muscles ripped.
‘It feels like there’s someone inside me pulling my insides.’
Kirsty spent three weeks in hospital shortly after the incident as the bite quickly spread to the size of a hand.
Kirsty’s mum Theresa believes she was bitten by a tick in her back garden in Maidstone, Kent, and is also suffering from Lyme disease, a bacterial infection that has symptoms in common with lupus.
But tests in the UK came back negative, so her family and friends are resorting to alternative tests.
The bite, which has transformed her life over the past ten years, left her at 16 with a face paralysed by Bell’s palsy, sudden and severe facial pain that feels like electric shocks.
She began having seizures 18 months ago.
Mum Theresa said: ‘When she has bad days you feel like you’re watching her go.
‘She’s begged me to take her to Switzerland and said she doesn’t want to do it any more.
‘That’s not something you want to hear from your daughter. You’re heartbroken every day.
‘Every few months, when she can’t stop being sick, she has to come into hospital and go on a drip because she’s dehydrated. All she wants is a normal life.’
Chloe, Kirsty’s sister has set up a Go Fund Me page to raise money for her cause.
She said: ‘Kirsty spends 90 per cent of her time in bed she has to have 24/7 care.
Source: Metro
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