A MOTHER with a devastating mystery illness that can paralyse half her body is furious because she is still waiting to see a hospital consultant after two years.

Dawn Monger was bed-ridden for seven weeks when the illness first struck. It left one side of her face and half her body paralysed from head to toe.

She also suffered fits, severe headaches, nausea and lost the power of speech and the ability to walk when her first attack happened in January 2006.

Ms Monger, aged 34, who works at Simply Mobile Solutions in Worcester city centre, has still not had her crippling condition diagnosed although her GP believes she may have Hemiplegic Migraine, a genetic neurological disease which can lead to fever, vomiting and headache. Some sufferers can even fall into a coma.

She was due to see a consultant at Worcestershire Royal Hospital in Worcester on Wednesday, August 13, but the appointment was cancelled and re-scheduled for January next year.

After your Worcester News contacted Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs the hospital, we were told the appointment had been brought forward to September.

Ms Monger said: “I’m angry and I feel totally neglected. I can’t get on with my life.

“I feel I have just been pushed further and further down the hospital’s list of priorities. When I have an attack I can’t even feel my face which makes it hard to eat and drink. It’s very scary when it happens. I’m really frustrated with the hospital.”

Her condition is so serious she is worried an attack could happen when she is driving.

She has had to move out of her home in Stourport-on-Severn and move in to her mum’s home in Kidderminster with her two children, aged five and nine, so she has someone to look after her.

Her mum, Sylvia Wright has also had to take responsibility for the care of her daughter’s children when she is too ill to care for them herself.

Ms Monger says she was prescribed five drugs including epileptic drugs, beta blockers and painkillers but none of them have relieved her symptoms when she saw her consultant two years ago.

She has even spent about £1,000 of her savings on acupuncture because she believes traditional medicine has failed her.

A spokesman for Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust said: “We apologise if there has been some confusion around bringing forward a revised appointment. We have now contacted Ms Monger and she has agreed a time and date for an appointment in early September.”