Narcolepsy

Narcolepsy is a dieses in which the victim is affected by suddenly falling asleep at any time of the day as many times as the brain orders. This disease is very dangerous because the person can be walking in the street, cooking, driving or doing anything else that might cause a sudden death due to the brain responding to their tiredness. On the video that we watched in class we saw how an elderly man named Mohamed suffered this sickness. He tries to live as normal as he can but he knows its nearly impossible, his wife needs to be with him at all times taking care of him and picking him up whenever he falls asleep. We were able to see how Mohamed fell asleep suddenly in the street. Mohamed and his wife need to live with the constant humiliation of him falling asleep in public places and people misunderstanding him and believing he is a drug addict or an alcoholic. During his daily routing Mohamed need to wear a special security hat to protect himself from getting hurt all around to house especially when he is helping his wife in the kitchen washing the dishes or something else. Having this perculiar dieses must be very uncomfortable and annoying.