Louisa Ball — Sleeping Beauty is not a romantic story character anymore; it exists in real life too.

Meet Louisa Ball, a teenager lovely girl that suffers with a disease called ‘Sleeping Beauty Syndrome’ or ‘Kleine-Levin Syndrome.’ She’s 15 years of age and her only fear is sleep; an unscheduled sleep that may come any time for any period i.e. hours, days or sometimes weeks.

Medical science tells there are very few people may be one out of hundreds of thousands of patients that develop this rare disease known as Kleine-Levin Syndrome (KLS) thus, become unpredictable whether when and where they may fell asleep. This is a neurological disorder poor Louisa Ball is encountered with.

A video interview of Louisa and her father Richard Ball is attached here with the article wherein they’re discussing the disease and the complications faced by them with regards to this extremely disturbing and uncommon disease. KLS is characterized by inveterate and chronic periods of unwanted sleep periods and kind altered behavior.

As a result of KLS the drowsy patient is always ready for an episode of sleep thus his/her sleep-cycle is adversely affected since the KLS patients can fell asleep even while driving, in some cases. Just imagine how it would feel for poor Louisa to wake up after a deep sleep of say one week, totally confused and spacey like an infant. And just imagine the hardships faced by her parents with regards to her food intake or other countless routine life problems.

Louisa is so helpless at times whenever suffering an episode of KLS that her parents have to take her to even washroom though the doctors believe such patients often walk during the sleep and perform many such acts while completely asleep. In Louisa’s case, both she and her parents can are living on the hope that one day she’ll be free of the disease naturally.

However, since there’s no guarantee how long it may take for her to fully recover, Louisa’s life is quite miserable and at times, sleep becomes a nightmare for her. The longest episode remained for Louisa Ball for nearly two weeks.