‘I went into hospital for four days and came out two years later’

Megan Dixon was 13 years old when he began to feel bad.

At 16, his health had deteriorated to such an extent that it was tasks in the hospital after losing the ability to speak. Doctors believed that they could have had a stroke.

She only had bone that remained there for four days for the tests, but came out two years later completely paralyzed. Unable to walk, talk or open their eyes, they told him that he would never move again.

Megan was diagnosed with functional neurological disorder (FND), which there was a problem with how its brain receiver and sent information to the rest of the body.

After having stayed in a neurological care home in Peterborough, he is now preparing to move to his own hoping of becoming a nail technician.

Megan said at the age of 18, when he moved to the Eagle Wood Neurological Center, she was still just a baby. ”

He had never made his own leg before and had to get away from the family reference bath to collect the care he needed.

“It was not easy. I think it was much more difficult for my mother and my dad to leave me there alone, but I could do anything for Mixel. I was paralyzed from the neck down,” he told the BBC.

“I couldn’t see, I couldn’t speak. I hate the word, but it was very vulnerable at that time.

“I began to feel bad when I was 13 years old. It starts very slowly, very gradually and then in 2021, things simply decreased rapidly.

“I was tasks in the hospital because they had worried them to have had a stroke, or something, because the ability to speak.

“I was homework for four days of testing and left the hospital two years later.”

His illness was diagnosed as FND.

“It stops the functioning of the brain signals to your body of persuzzer work and causes all kinds of neurological symptoms,” he said.

“I couldn’t do anything for myself, I lost the ability to speak.

“I couldn’t see, so I could open my eyes. My brain could not record the difference between the closed eyes and open eyes.”

She also the ability to swallow and was fed by a power tube in her mouth, which has been replaced by one directly in her stomach.

At its worst, it had 50 seizures a day, but that has now been reduced to Betsen 10 and 15.

After 18 months of extensive therapy, his life is completely different.

She said: “I can move now. I can obviously talk, I can see. I can’t walk and I’m never going to walk to walk again, but that’s contractions on my knees.

“I need surgery to fold them because my legs are straight. It is very painful, but I am waiting for surgery, and Meeeans can never walk again.

“Honestly, it was something that I never thought I would plan when my parents took me to the care house. They thought it was so, that it was going to be my home for the rest of my life.

“I was reaching the point that I almost died in the hospital, my body simply closed so much.

“The doctors had to tell my parents to prepare for the sausage; they did not believe that it would reach 18 years and here I am at age 20.”

His dream is to be a nail technician and is saving to complete an online course.

“I really can’t wait to finally move and get a place with my boyfriend,” he said. “I am very excited.”

FND Action said that brain network disorder commended neurological symptoms that include limb weakness, paralysis, seizures, walking difficulties, spasms, contractions, sensory problems and more.

“For many, the symptoms are serious and disabling, and change life for all,” he said.

He added that while the basic wiring of the nervous system was intact, people with the disorder had a problem with how the brain or nervous system were “working”, and the brain could not send or recover signals correctly.

“Historically, FND has seen as purely results of psychological and emotional trauma, this has often led to stigma and dismissal of medical professionals,” he added.

“This point of view is now considered outdated, and psychological trauma is now considered a risk factor to develop the condition instead of the root cause.”

Megan said he had an isolated, frustrated and exhausted leg at the time the “unpredictable” life with FND had his leg.

Now he shares his experiences in Tiktok.

“It is worth celebrating every little victory, either by moving a finger, saying a word or simply crossing another day,” he said.