17 Year Old Boy That Will Die If He Fall Asleep

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You think sleeping and waking up is normal until you meet someone who meets someone who must not sleep because the day he does, is the day he dies.

The question is, how has that person been able to survive.

Meet Liam Derbyshire; a boy who was born with a condition called Ondine's Curse, officially known as Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome.

This condition causes respiratory arrest due to a patient's lungs not functioning when they are asleep.

With this condition, Liam has to be plugged into a life support machine and watched by a carer every night to keep him alive.

In fact, when he was born, doctors said that he had just six weeks to live, but to the surprise of everyone, he has lived 17 more years.

His parents get to monitor him 24 hours every day, just to be sure nothing goes wrong.

Liam's parents, Peter and Kim, act as a major part of his caring team and monitor their son 24 hours a day with specialised GPS equipment.

With his condition, it meant that he had to be on a very strict bedtime routine.

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17 Year Old Boy That Will Die If He Fall Asleep