At the age of 11, Victoria Arlen knew that something was off. The girl felt that something was quickly becoming wrong with her.
Victoria suddenly became ill, stopping her from indulging in the same hobbies that she had always had, swimming and dancing.
At first, Victoria’s sickness began with various onsets of the flu, but later developed into more somber matters and resulted in her losing the ability to use her legs. As time went on, Jacqueline, her mother became more and more worried about her daughter.
After countless visits to the hospital, the girl was diagnosed with two autoimmune diseases which impacted both her brain and her spinal cord. Victoria seems to have little hope left.
The young girl was couldn’t communicate like she used to, but that didn’t stop her parents from loving her and caring for her. But then something happened that no one could have expected, not even the doctors.
Victoria’s parents experienced the shock of their life when they realized that their beloved daughter was actually still there – trapped inside her body, desperately attempting to communicate with them.
The girl shocked everyone because she was still aware of everything going on around her.
Despite having no ability to move or communicate with her peers and had lost the capability of controlling her eyes, she was still aware of her surroundings, something that her sisters and parents did not realize.
Victoria was desperately trapped inside of her own failing body but had attempted to communicate with her parents day after day trying to make them aware that she was still there.
At the age of 15 and she had been diagnosed for 4 years, she realized that everyone around her believed she had lost her consciousness.
Things started to turn around for Victoria when the doctors visited her and prescribed a medication that helped her regain control over the movement of her eyes. This allowed her some sort of communication with her parents.
Today, Victoria has regained control of her illnesses and is back to being the happy and excited girl she once was.
Source: apost.com
