My struggle with Narcolepsy

If I were to describe Narcolepsy, its kind of hard to be honest. You’re just always tired. It doesn’t matter how much you sleep. One minute I feel productive and full of minute, literally the next minute, I am falling asleep while holding a cup of water.

Its like having a demon on the side of my shoulder telling me to go to sleep, versus the angel who is trying to keep me awake. The demon always succeed and I end up sleeping my day and night away.

I’ll never forget the first day I got diagnosed. I had just started my first semester of nursing school and I was struggling to stay awake. I did a whole sleep study and had wires stuck on all parts of my body. It got the point where I felt like a lab rat being experimented on. The only good thing about the…