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Kirsty Keep's mum posts Facebook video of daughter in pain from potential lyme disease

A desperate mum has shared a second heartbreaking video of her daughter writhing in agony in a final bid to get someone to take the young woman’s pain away.

Kirsty Keep suffers with chronic pain, fitting, fatigue and vomiting due to an undiagnosed illness, which her family believe is lyme disease, contracted through a tick bite when she was 12.

The 24-year-old was in and out of hospital with no solution in sight until a huge national campaign last year raised more than £60,000 for treatment in America, which provided her with respite for the first time in years.

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Kirsty Keep writhes in agony in her bed at Tunbridge Wells Hospital
Kirsty Keep writhes in agony in her bed at Tunbridge Wells Hospital

But her three-month visa ran out in September and since returning to the UK Miss Keep’s symptoms have returned.

At 10pm yesterday she was rushed to Tunbridge Wells Hospital, Pembury, in agony.

Video: Heartbroken mum Theresa Keep filmed daughter Kirsty in agony in her hospital bed

This morning, as Miss Keep, of Camp Way, Mangravet, Maidstone, groaned and rolled from side to side, sucking on gas and air, her mum Theresa Keep picked up her mobile phone and filmed the heartbreaking scene.

Through tears she told the Kent Messenger: “I don’t know what else to do. I keep putting on Facebook that she’s back in hospital and everyone says “get well soon” but no one realises how bad it is.

Kirsty Keep and mum Theresa in happier times
Kirsty Keep and mum Theresa in happier times

“I’m here watching her every day, day in, day out. It’s just horrendous.

“She’s had all sorts of pain relief but nothing is touching it. The pain is all over her body but it’s really bad in her stomach and back.

“She’s been in and out of hospital so many times in the last three or four week it’s unreal.

“One minute she’s got fight in her and the next minute she wants to give up again.

Kirsty Keep at the Sponaugle Wellness Institute in Florida
Kirsty Keep at the Sponaugle Wellness Institute in Florida

“They’ve done more tests this time and we’re waiting for the results but they’ve said she could have pancreatitis.”

The new potential diagnosis has terrified Mrs Keep as American teenager Anna Burgess, who Kirsty made friends with when they were both treated at the Sponaugle Wellness Institute in Florida, was diagnosed with pancreatitis shortly before she died.

In May last year, Mrs Keep made national headlines when she released a video of her daughter crying out in pain in a hospital bed.

The film, which she also posted on Facebook, inspired hundreds of strangers to donate money towards Miss Keep’s treatment.

The family is now raising more cash to get Miss Keep back out to Florida for further treatment.

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