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https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/health/disease-like-living-death-means-14394864
Disease like 'living death' means mum can only see toddler son a few minutes a day
'He just wants to be with his mum - I'm so full of guilt. I'm supposed to be his mum and I can’t even see him'
Disease like 'living death' means mum can only see toddler son a few minutes a day
'He just wants to be with his mum - I'm so full of guilt. I'm supposed to be his mum and I can’t even see him'
A young mum feels like "living death" because of a debilitating brain condition that means she can only see her son for a few minutes a day.
Bed-bound Sophie Cooklynn, 21, from Bootle, said it was heartbreaking that severe ME had made her toddler Lucas' touch and voice too painful to tolerate.
She is forced to wear dark glasses and earplugs and struggles to move her body at all, as it triggers pain "like you've been poisoned".
She decided to speak out about the reality of her condition as she said some people saw her as "lazy" and failed to understand ME.