A mum was diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder after she developed physical Tourette’s-like tics which made her feel like a “puppet on a string”.
Jo Mason, 42, initially had migraines and vertigo but soon developed uncontrollable body jerks.
Every limb in her body started jerking - and she’d throw her arms back, above her head.
After a strong of tests was diagnosed with functional neurological disorder (FND).
FND is when the brain has problems receiving and sending information to the rest of the body - despite it not being damaged.
The former music teacher had to quit her job due to daily tics.
She sometimes struggles with walking - and will need a stick or mobility scooter to get around.
Jo Mason, 42, initially had migraines and vertigo but soon developed uncontrollable body jerks.
Every limb in her body started jerking - and she’d throw her arms back, above her head.
After a strong of tests was diagnosed with functional neurological disorder (FND).
FND is when the brain has problems receiving and sending information to the rest of the body - despite it not being damaged.
The former music teacher had to quit her job due to daily tics.
She sometimes struggles with walking - and will need a stick or mobility scooter to get around.
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00:00Are you coming in then or what?
00:10I'm dying!
00:12How can I?
00:18Why won't it step down? It doesn't want to step down.
00:22Try the other leg.
00:30Come on.
00:52Come in.
01:00This is all from last night.
01:10What, watching the football?
01:20Let it go, let it go.
01:22It's the dancing Snicket.
01:24Oh god, it feels really good to let it go when you've been holding it in.
01:38Stop doing that one.
01:44Try and flip it the other way.
01:46Superman.
01:50Oh, head's gone.
01:54You've got a fan.
02:06I've got a fan?
02:08Yeah.
02:10Hiya love.
02:12How you doing?
02:14Hiya.
02:16We've been having a great time, haven't we Bill?
02:18And then all of a sudden...
02:20Stand back everyone.
02:22Come on Bill, hit it at her.
02:24See if you can hit it.
02:26I've got it.
02:28Oh right, you can't even...
02:30Well throw it up and see if you can get it.
02:32He's left me.
02:34Has he?
02:36He's left me.
02:38Go on then.
02:40Come on, I'll play.
02:42Oh, you did it.
02:48Do it.
02:50Oh, I lost.
02:52Oh, you did.
03:12No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
03:14I'm going to the piano still.