BelfastLive reports that the teenager from Ballyclare, Northern Ireland, was found to be suffering from a rare brain condition called Friedreich’s ataxia.
The NHS lists symptoms of the rare disease – that is believed to affect 1 in 50,000 – tend to develop before sufferers turn 25-years-old.Signs and symptoms include problems with balance and coordination, increasingly slurred, slow and unclear speech, increased weakness in legs, difficulty swallowing, abnormal curvature of the spine, loss of sight and hearing, diabetes, thickening of the heart muscles, and a loss of sensation in the hands and feet.The NHS website states of the hereditary disease: "People with the condition tend to have a shorter life expectancy than normal.
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