Former CV Student with Rare Sleep Syndrome Appears on TV Show
A teenager, whose family recently moved from Scott Township, suffers from a rare and debilitating disease, causing her to go into long periods of deep sleep and lethargy.
Vicki Delien recalls one holiday season when her now 17-year-old daughter Nicole missed Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Eve. The West Allegheny High School student, who suffers from the rare neurological disorder Kleine-Levin Syndrome, slept through the holidays, awaking one day in January when she finally opened Christmas gifts alongside her family. Delien said her family has grappled with her daughter's debilitating condition, sometimes called "Sleeping Beauty Syndrome," which causes Nicole to periodically fall asleep for days or weeks at a time. "She's never really adjusted to it," Delien said. "She's 17 now and it really upsets her. She's missed out on a lot." Nicole's family used to live in Scott Township and she was a student…
Nan Harbison
11:58 am on Friday, November 23, 2012
I don't know what happened to my first comment on this article. I thought it was deleted of course. I have patches that might help with sleepiness.The patches do NOT have drugs in them, they have organic crystals in them, and when they are applied to the body (on acupuncture points) the heat of the body causes them to send wavelengths of energy into the body to do specific. One of the kinds of … more ›