Marnie-Rae Harvey, 17, is unable to leave her home because blood can
start spontaneously seeping from her eye, ears, beneath her tongue and
from her scalp at any moment. This is her everyday life. Her mother
says she has to shake her every morning to check she is alive.
Doctors have no idea what is causing the bleeding as they struggle to
come up with a diagnosis. In July, 2015, she woke up with blood seeping
out of her eye. She was rushed to hospital but doctors could do
nothing. Soon after, blood started seeping from her ears and from under
her fingernails.
In the last couple of months the mysterious bleeding has spread to
her scalp and under her tongue. Her mum said she had been coughing up
blood and suffering from excruciating migraines for a couple of years
before the bleeding started.
There have been a couple of reports of people bleeding from their
eyes, including a man from Tennessee who was diagnosed with a condition
called haemolacria, but none involve bleeding from other orifices. The
family from Stoke-on-Trent is a city in Staffordshire, England, are
sharing their story in the hope someone somewhere has heard of the
condition and could help them.
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