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Narcoleptic Christmas December 23, 2006

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Twenty years ago when Mali Einen was 24, her baby daughter said something funny and before she knew it, Einen's muscles went limp and she collapsed into the Christmas tree. That's when she discovered she was narcoleptic. It turns out that narcolepsy is a lot different from what we think it is. When Einen fell down, she hadn't suddenly fallen asleep, rather she was actually wide awake and her body had just become temporarily paralyzed. This continued to happen to Mali, and each episode was triggered by extreme joy. Weekend America's Hillary Frank brings us her story.