Kilmartin suffers from a rare condition in which strong emotions associated with laughter cause sudden muscle weakness.
On one occasion, a laugh nearly cost her life after she fell asleep while in the pool during a holiday.
“I lose control of all my muscles,” Claimarten said. “When I laugh, my knees go weak, my head drops, I’m conscious and aware and able to hear everything that’s going on, but I can’t move my body at all.”
She added, “When the condition first started, I felt dizzy when I laughed, and then it developed so that my eyes blink and my eyelids completely droop.”
And she continued, “Since it has now developed into complete muscle weakness when I laugh, there have been many accidents. I hurt myself after I lost control of my body.”
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