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Virginia Fasan

// Your Biography Assessment // Birthdate: 15th September 1977 Family: Husband, Matt Fasan and her 3 sons, James, Pat and Will.

Viginia Fasan is my neighbour, I have known her ever since she moved into our street. She is loving and caring and she is to our family a amazing friend and always will be. She lives a great life, she has a husband Matt and 3 kids, James, Pat and Will, she plays netball every Saturday, a holiday house and a job but she has something different to most people. She has a sleeping disorder called narcolepsy which she started getting when she was 18 years old, with narcolepsy people will just suddenly fall asleep, it is made by excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS). Narcoleptics usually experience disturbed nocturnal sleep and an abnormal daytime sleep pattern. She can get up after about 15 - 20 minutes. So it is hard for her if she falls in a public place or she could just be talking to someone or eating because she would just fall asleep. I think it would be really frightening having a sleeping disorder and how Virginia goes about dealing with it is amazing. If I was one of Virginia's 3 kids, James, Pat or Will, I would find it scary if my mum could just fall asleep at anytime, especially when they were younger and they wouldn't know what to do. But knowing them as a family they are really sporty, there whole family are really big Essendon supporters. (except for James, he goes for Hawthorn.) Every weekend they are out at one of the sports that their boys play. Virginia plays netball every Saturday. Recently, Virginia tore her achilles while playing netball, she went to Maroondah Hospital and had an operation on her leg. The drip that they put in her arm wasn't in properly so she got blood poison, called septicemia. Septicemia is bacteria in your bloodstream and can be really severe and it causes in infections, spiking fevers, chills, rapid breathing, and rapid heart rate. I have experienced her falling asleep a couple of times. It is really scary, you dont even expect it, she just falls. But you have to be calm while you are around her because she can still hear and it would be really frightning not being able to see after falling. Sometimes we can just be sitting around a table at dinner and she will just put her head back and fall asleep. I find Virginia amazing, she also does walkothons to raise money for sick children and just to keep fit. Virginia is so loving to the community, she is always putting her hand up to help out with fundraises, fetes and donations. She always helps out with her children's school and just any community activities. I think Virginia has shown courage by still living a normal life with the risk of having narcolepsy. I think having a sleeping disorder would be really scary and Virginia is just thankful with what she has in life and doesn't complain about all the things she misses out on because of her sleeping disorder. __Bibliography __ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcolepsy - Date Researched: 16/08/10  http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/narcolepsy/detail_narcolepsy.htm - Date Researched: 16/08/10  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001355.htm - Date Researched 26/08/10